Nora

“From the very fact, indeed, that I am conscious of the motives which solicit my action, these motives are already transcendent objects from my consciousness, they are outside; in vain shall I seek to cling to them: I escape from them through my very existence. I am condemned to exist forever beyond my essence, beyond the affective and rational motives of my act: I am condemned to be free.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

“To believe is to know that one believes, and to know that one believes is no longer to believe.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

“I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

“There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus