The Myth of Sisyphus - takeaways
Overall, examines whether life has meaning.
Judges whether life is worth living.
Killing yourself is confessing life is too much for you, you don’t understand it.
You belong to time.
The minds deepest desire is clarity.
A man devoid of hope and conscious has ceased to belong to the future.
Two men living the same # of years experience the same amount of things, it is up to them to be conscious, being aware of one’s life one’s revolt, one’s freedom, and to the maximum, is living to the maximum.
There is no substitute for any amount of years and experience, do not live in lucidity.
The purest joy on earth is feeling.
There is no more ghastly an image than man betrayed by his own body.
A man is more the things he keeps to himself then than the things he says.
A man is his own end.
The conquerers are merely men conscious enough of their own strength and live amongst it’s heights.
The greatest novel’s are philosophical, not thesis’s.
A man who wants to earn money for happiness, and his whole effort/life is devoted to that, happiness is forgotten.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart… the greatest joy on earth is feeling.