Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.