"We are not certain, we are never..." - Quote by Albert Camus
We are not certain, we are never certain.
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“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.”
“Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.”
More on Uncertainty
“Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.”
“There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.”
“I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.”
More on Knowledge
“All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself.”
“Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.”
“But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?”