The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

The cliche organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these wor…

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can ap…

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the princi…