a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
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a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
“man finds himself simultaneously driven to act and free to reflect.”
Erich Neumann • The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Works by Erich Neumann Book 15)
More often what one intends to preserve is a public personage, a permanently veiled selfhood.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
Iris Murdoch’s words: “Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself and then comes to resemble the picture.”
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
a persistent theme that has a deep Augustinian resonance weaves its way throughout Camus’s corpus. It could be named in different ways: exile, alienation, stranger-hood.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
It is an instrument of thought and not thought itself. Above all, a man’s thought is his nostalgia.
Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
everything that man does in his symbolic world is an attempt to deny and overcome his grotesque fate. He literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness—agreed madness, shared madness, disguised and di
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