It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
Interpretation
Being logical is simple, but maintaining that logic in the face of harsh realities is challenging.
Albert Camus highlights the difficulty of maintaining pure logic when confronted with the complexities and harsh truths of life. While it may be easy to apply logical reasoning in simple scenarios, the challenges of real-life situations often require us to navigate emotional and irrational responses that can cloud our judgment and complicate reasoning.
In practice
In a philosophy class discussing the nature of truth and reason.
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.
No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?
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