Sometimes philosophy is as ridiculous as religion, and its preoccupations just as fantastic.
There is only one truly serious philosophical problem: the problem of suicide.
To judge whether life is or is not worth the trouble of being lived, that is to respond to the fundamental question of philosophy.
From Le mythe de Sisyphe, by Albert Camus.
The first two sentences, in fact.
My translation.
Can you believe it?
My freshman class were required to read this book the summer before we started at Holy Cross, the fall of 1967.
He writes a scant page later,
The meaning of life is the most pressing of questions.
Mon Dieu!
Freud reputedly said, "As soon as a man asks the meaning of life, he is sick."
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