“ In truth the way matters but little; the will to arrive suffices. ”
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). copy citation
Author | Albert Camus |
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Source | The Myth of Sisyphus |
Topic | will goal way |
Date | 1942 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Justin O'Brien |
Weblink | http://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil360/16.%20Myth%20of%20Sisyph... |
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“It is futile to be amazed by the apparent paradox that leads thought to its own negation by the opposite paths of humiliated reason and triumphal reason. From the abstract god of Husserl to the dazzling god of Kierkegaard the distance is not so great. Reason and the irrational lead to the same preaching. In truth the way matters but little; the will to arrive suffices. The abstract philosopher and the religious philosopher start out from the same disorder and support each other in the same anxiety. But the essential is to explain. Nostalgia is stronger here than knowledge.”
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