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
men class privileged
There is only one class of men, the privileged class
play mind
...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
mean men ideas
... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.
simple men historical
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
attitude character passion
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.
evil claims remedy
None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
men becoming action
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
painting
It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.
judging world admiration
False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.
mean government law
The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
weakness
We all have a weakness for beauty.
kissing fire trying
Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss
mother men funeral
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
hands sky people
For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.