fundamental quotes

Il n'y a qu'un proble'  me philosophique vraiment se  rieux: c'est le suicide. Juger que la vie vaut ou ne vaut pas la peine d'e"  tre ve  cue, c'est re  pondre a'   la question fondamentale de la philosophie. Thereisbutonetrulyseriousphilosophical problem, and that is suicide.Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

- Albert Camus
  LeMythe deSisyphe ( TheMyth of Sisyphus,1955),'Absurdity and Suicide'.

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

- Herman Hupfeld
  'As Time Goes By', sung by Dooley Wilson in the film Casablanca (1943).

The scientific attitude implies†the postulate of objectivitythat is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.

-Jacques Monod
  Le Hasard et la Nece  ssite  .

The spirit that now resists your taxation in America is†the same spirit that established the great fundamental, essential maxim of your libertiesthat no subject of England shall betaxed but byhis ownconsent. The glorious spirit of Whiggismanimates three million in America, who prefer poverty with liberty to gilded chains and sordid affluence; and who will die in defence of their rights as men, as free men.

-William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder Pitt
  Speech to the House of Lords, 20 Jan.