“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotences.”

— Albert Camus , book The Myth of Sisyphus

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The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning

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“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotences.”

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