Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a meaning and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose |
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal. |
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. |
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth |
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth. |
Man is a useless passion. |
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. |
Man is condemned to be free. |
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices |
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. |
Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have |
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. |
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent"; my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith. |
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point |
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat |