More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.~ Albert Camus, in Notebooks 1935-1942 (1962), March 1940 entry
A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.~ Albert Camus
Life is absurd.~ Albert Camus
Jean Paul Sartre has said that all of French Existentialism is to be found in Ivan Karamazov's contention that if there is no God, everything is permitted.- Katharena Eiermann, essay on Existentialism and Dostoevsky
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.- Federco Fellini
There is something missing in my life, and it has to do with my need to understand what I must do, not what I must know--except, of course, that a certain amount of knowledge is presupposed in every action. I need to understand my purpose in life, to see what God wants me to do, and this means that I must find a truth which is true to me, that I must find that Idea for which I can live and die. (Soren Kierkegaard, "An Entry from the Journal of the Young Kierkegaard," in Louis Pojman, "Classics of Philosophy, vol. 11, "Modern and Contemporary" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 902)
The existentialist . . . finds it extremely embarassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven.- Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism.
All human actions are equivalent. . . and. . . all are on principle doomed to failure. --- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) "Being and Nothingness," Conclusion, sct. 2, 1943; tr. 1965.
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