21 ideas
9247 | Life will be lived better if it has no meaning [Camus] |
6707 | Suicide - whether life is worth living - is the one serious philosophical problem [Camus] |
9245 | To an absurd mind reason is useless, and there is nothing beyond reason [Camus] |
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
9244 | Logic is easy, but what about logic to the point of death? [Camus] |
9249 | Whether we are free is uninteresting; we can only experience our freedom [Camus] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
9253 | The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it [Camus] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
9250 | Discussing ethics is pointless; moral people behave badly, and integrity doesn't need rules [Camus] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
9252 | The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows [Camus] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
9251 | One can be virtuous through a whim [Camus] |
9243 | If we believe existence is absurd, this should dictate our conduct [Camus] |
6708 | Happiness and the absurd go together, each leading to the other [Camus] |
9242 | Essential problems either risk death, or intensify the passion of life [Camus] |
9246 | Danger and integrity are not in the leap of faith, but in remaining poised just before the leap [Camus] |
9248 | It is essential to die unreconciled and not of one's own free will [Camus] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |
8433 | There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich] |