The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.