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
mistake believe heart
The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.
powerful enemy tongue
Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.
power men practice
For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
heart reality men
Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.
men suffering cry
Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
age experience world
But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
men innocence guilty
In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
men transcendental without-god
The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.
heart sea royal
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
firsts culture dictatorship
The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.
feelings splendid sisyphus
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
religious practice people
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.
lying years leader
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.
war government revolutionary
The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.