7 Quotes by Robert Zaretsky

Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.

Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: "They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave.

In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain" Albert Camus

Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: “They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave.

The absence of meaning is not a call to despair or an invitation to leap joyfully into the abyss. Instead, the world’s stubborn silence leads us to acknowledge our common predicament and spurs us to rebel against it.

Absurdity is not an autonomous state; it does not exist in the world, but is instead exhaled from the abyss that divides us from a mute world.

As Camus’ reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places – even Oran or Hades.