- on intuition
Intuition, on the other hand, perceives that movement is anterior to immobility, and in proceeding from the moving to the fixed "installs itself in that which is moving and adopts the very life of things." It thus comes closer to a perception of reality, which in essence is mobility. With intuition we "transcend ourselves" and are brought into contact with an essential "continuity" of motion, the "inward life of things." (p.8)
- on absurdity
Without the joy of recognition and pleasure, the absurdity would be insufficient, and vice versa. (p.10)
Rather, the sense of the absurd must return "to a man's life and find its home there," where "all problems recover their sharp edge," none of them settled, all of them transfigured. If one adapts one's life to the contradictory rhythms of despair and hope, then these very rhythms are transcended in their being suspended in the clarity of the paradox. (p.15)
- on Sisyphus's fate
He (Sisyphus) sees, in an intense focus, on the way down the hill, that his fate is tragic, but he also sees that it has a rhythm, that he will walk down and push up over and over again. He realizes change and he realizes the formal quality of this change. The rock is his consciousness of his task, and he is the master of it. In this form there is a meaning to the meaninglessness of his fate - this paradox stated. (p.16)
