Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 November 1913
CountryFrance
demand greater deserve
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
death men effort
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
eye giving people
When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
character men thinking
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.
strong men honor
Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses...
retirement moving next-move
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
men feelings faces
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
believe support obvious
What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
essence ideas numbers
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
life personality shapes
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
men suffering world
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
bending love-myself break
One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
race heaven cost
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
adventure sea optimism
The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.