The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.