Absurdism Quotes

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Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

Existentialism Absurdism

Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-Ãªtre hier, je ne sais

Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-Ãªtre hier, je ne sais pas. J'ai reÃ§u un tÃ©lÃ©gramme de l'asile : Â« MÃ¨re dÃ©cÃ©dÃ©e. Enterrement demain. Sentiments distinguÃ©s. Â» Cela ne veut rien dire. C'Ã©tait peut-Ãªtre hier.

Existentialism Nihilism Absurdism

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate onl

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

Happiness Absurdism

To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to k

To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries- this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on one hand and magnifying on the other, is the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors.

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

Freedom Living Absurdism

Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether

Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes from the fact that the very notion that makes the problem of freedom possible also takes away all its meaning. For in the presence of God there is less a problem of freedom than a problem of evil. You know the alternative: either we are not free and God the all-powerful is responsible for evil. Or we are free and responsible but God is not all powerful. All the scholastic subtleties have neither added anything to nor subtracted anything from the acuteness of this paradox.

God Freedom Absurdism

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

Existentialism Absurdism