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Topic·Absurdity of life✕clear

Lecture

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Max Weber

1917

★ 1.0

Play · Tragedy (play)

As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods; They kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

King Lear · 1606

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress · 1905

★ 3.5

Essay · Philosophical literature

Sisyphyus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus · 1942

★ 3.6

Song · Rock music

Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life. Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die.

The Verve

Bitter Sweet Symphony · 1997

★ 3.6

Play · Tragedy (play)

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth · 1616

★ 6.4

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