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
talking rivers long
But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.
art design triumph
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
jobs be-who-you-are dignity
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
dream fighting world
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.
spring mean unity
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.
thinking ends resolve
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
inspiring ideas world
Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.
order history creative
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
men irony hunger
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
nature law giving
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
sunday stranger back-to-work
It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.
heart body languish
When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
real men example
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
eulogy enemy made
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.