> “To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries- this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on one hand and magnifying on the other, is the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors.”
― Albert Camus, The #MythOfSisyphus and Other Essays
#AbsurdCreator #CookingMeals #AbsurdThought

Started reading Camus' #mythofsisyphus to understand fully what was the meaning behind sisyphus being happy but so far all he does is diss other existential philosophers

Or at least that's the part I understand, it's difficult reading

Working on a meme-sort of image with Erika E.'s photo and quotes from Albert Camus's _Myth of Sisyphus_
> A face that toils so close to stones is already stone itself! I see that man going back down with a heavy yet measured step toward the torment of which he will never know the end. That hour like a breathing-space which returns as surely as his suffering, that is the hour of consciousness. At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate. He is stronger than his rock... There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. --- Albert Camus in Myth of Sisyphus
> Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth.

original photo by @[email protected] :
https://pixelfed.social/p/Erika.E/868193558696672111

#AlbertCamus #MythOfSisyphus #SisyphusScorn #SisyphusRock #CamusWithSisyphus

> The important thing, as Abbe Galiani said to Mme d’Epinay, is not to be cured, but to live with one’s ailments.
#Camus #AlbertCamus #Cure #Ailments #Galiani #dEpinay #AbbeGaliani #MmeDEpinay #Siyphus #MythOfSisyphus

#Camus, #AlbertCamus in #TheRebel talks about the need for moderation, a self-imposed #limit The Ancient Greek #Nemesis was limits. Go beyond your limits and bad things happen: hangovers, pollution,wars, nuclear catastarophes..
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This book, with #MythOfSisyphus, works like a secular bible, when someone need a little help, some clear thought to avoid doing something awful, stupid: to avoid going beyond reasonable limits, good sense... #HerbertRead seems interesting too.