"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." (Albert Camus, "Carnets: 1935–1951" ["Notebooks"] 1937]
"At the final stage you teach me that this wondrous and multicolored universe can be reduced to the atom and that the atom itself can be reduced to the electron. All this is good and I wait for you to continue. But you tell me of an invisible planetary system in which electrons gravitate around a nucleus. You explain this world to me with an image. I realize then that you have been reduced to poetry: I shall never know. Have I the time to become indignant? You have already changed theories. So that science that was to teach me everything ends up in a hypothesis, that lucidity founders in metaphor, that uncertainty is resolved in a work of art." (Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus", 1942)
"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them." (Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays", 1942)
"Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing." (Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus", 1942)
"The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd." (Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus", 1942)
"[...] we know, and what we really know, practical assent and simulated ignorance [...] allows us to live with ideas which, if we truly put them to the test, ought to upset our whole life." (Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus", 1942)
"When one has no character one has to apply a method." (Albert Camus, "The Fall", 1956)
"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism." (Albert Camus, "Carnets: 1942-1951" ["Notebooks"], 1963)
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