| Interesting Philosphical Thoughts Sartre ...being loved removes the feeling of being absurd or being simply an accident in the world, since one's status as the unconditional center of another person's world makes one feel as if the meaning of one's being has an absolute quality. The more a person experiences being loved, the more the person who is loved has a sense of his or her own individuality and distance from the person who is projecting the love. Cioran Although life for me is torture, I cannot renounce it, because I do not believe in the absolute values in whose name I would sacrifice myself. If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which remains itself without reason. This is so true for me! How strange life is, to want to do something yet not know why and find the reason in the thoughts of others. Camus When the feeling of absurdity arrives, daily life takes on a mechanical and pointless quality and one becomes alienated and disengaged from the ordinary, meaning-filled way of interpreting the world. There is no permanent meaning in life, even if one's personal achievement and contribution to humanity is at the very highest level. Suicide does not nobly and courageously confront the absurd, but eliminateds one's awareness of the world altogether; it does not solve the problem of how to live in the face of life's absurdity, but only dissolves the context within which the problem arises and persists to. Instead of cutting life short as quickly as one can, one ought to live as long as possible, providing that one is able to appreciate the infinite value of the present moment as it is experienced, no matter what is experienced. Life is hopeless but still of immeasurable value. Back to Main Page |