Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?”
He laughed and flicked his whip again, harder. He was in a better mood than I had seen for months.
“No, Camelot, not hope. Hope is for the weak; have I not succeeded in teaching you that? To hope is to put your faith in others and in things outside yourself; that way lies betrayal and disappointment. They didn't want hope, Camelot; they wanted certainty. What a man needs is the certainty that he is right, no self-doubt, no fleeting thought that he might be wrong or misled. Absolute certainty that he is right—that's what gives a man the confidence and power to do whatever he wants and to take whatever he wants from this world and the next.
Stichwörter: lies hope human-nature human-condition existentialism
Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
Albert CamusStichwörter: existentialism absurdism
The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed by his reason and its designs; so that no one becomes this or that because he wants to, though he want to never so much, but that his conduct proceeds from his inborn and inalterable character, is narrowly and in particulars determined by motivation, and is thus necessarily the product of these two factors.
Arthur SchopenhauerStichwörter: existentialism schopenhauer maxims aphorisms
Time is only linear for engineers and referees.
Craig FergusonStichwörter: time existentialism relativity
Nothingness haunts Being.
Jean-Paul SartreStichwörter: existentialism
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.
Knut HamsunStichwörter: existentialism
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
Albert CamusStichwörter: meaning-of-life nihilism existentialism absurdism the-absurd
You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.
Jean-Paul SartreStichwörter: philosophy existentialism
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
Albert CamusStichwörter: philosophy absurd existentialism choices
After awhile you could get used to anything.
Albert CamusStichwörter: existentialism
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