The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

“If faith in immortality is so necessary to the human being (that without it he comes to the point of killing himself), it must therefore be the normal state of humanity. Since this is the case, the immortality of the human soul exists without any doubt.”

Yet all the knowledge on earth will give me nothing to assure me that this world is mine.

Perhaps this notion will become clearer if I risk this shocking statement: the absurd is sin without God.

To Chestov reason is useless but there is something beyond reason. To an absurd mind reason is useless and there is nothing beyond reason.

It confirms absurd thought in its initial assertion that there is no truth, but merely truths.

Useless to strive to be convincing in this case. Over the centuries no one has furnished a clearer and more elegant demonstration of the business than Aristotle: “The often ridiculed consequence of these opinions is that they destroy themselves. For by asserting that all is true we assert the truth of the contrary assertion and consequently the fal

If time frightens us, this is because it works out

At this juncture, I cannot conceive that a skeptical metaphysics can be joined to an ethics of renunciation.