Source: The Rebel (1951), pp. 8 - 10 as quoted in Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd';(2002) by Avi Sagi, p. 44
Context: The absurd … is an experience to be lived through, a point of departure, the equivalent, in existence of Descartes' methodical doubt. Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest. The first and only evidence that is supplied me, within the terms of the absurdist experience, is rebellion … Rebellion is born of the spectacle of irrationality, confronted with an unjust and incomprehensible condition.
Source: The Alphabet of Grace (1970)
Source: L’Expérience Intérieure (1943), p. 9
Cheers.
Speech at Chesterfield (16 December 1901), reported in The Times (17 December 1901), p. 10.
“No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.”
The Commerce Clause (1937), p. 12.
Other writings
“Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity”
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.203
“The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method;”
The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 20 (See also: Algorithms).
Leviathan (1651)
Context: The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method; in that they begin not their Ratiocination from Definitions; that is, from settled significations of their words: as if they could cast account, without knowing the value of the numerall words, one, two, and three.
Source: Gone with the Wind
2005, The World without Zionism, 2005
Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9898
“Better to doubt methodically than to think capriciously.”
Speech at his inauguration as Lord Rector of The University of Edinburgh (6 November 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 83.
1925
