the most universal rationalism always stumbles eventually on the irrational of human thought.

Mystics, to begin with, find freedom in giving themselves. By losing themselves in their god, by accepting his rules, they become secretly free. In spontaneously accepted slavery they recover a deeper independence. But what does that freedom mean? It may be said, above all, that they feel free with regard to themselves, and not so much free as

Never, perhaps, have minds been so different.

But there again what interests me is not works or minds, criticism of which would call for another form and another place, but the discovery of what their conclusions have in common. Never, perhaps, have minds been so different. And yet we recognize as identical

of those steps is religious in essence;

I am taking the liberty at this point of calling the existential attitude philosophical suicide.

it ends up by finding a meaning and depth in it.

The drama’s whole effort is to show the logical system which, from deduction to deduction, will crown the hero’s misfortune. Merely to announce to us that uncommon fate is scarcely horrible, because it is improbable. But if its necessity is demonstrated to us in the framework of everyday life, society, state, familiar emotion, then the horror is

It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it.