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
brother blessing hands
If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.
lying men decision
Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
unity principles needs
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'
imagination made myth
Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
knowledgeable-person ignorant may
The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
evil hungry heal
We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
art doe reason
Art does not tolerate reason.
fellowship saint defeated
I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.
writing stronger needs
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
heart facts study
These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
choices life-is results
Life is the result of all your choices.
fate punishment
A fate is not a punishment.
hurt emptiness indifference
There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
special cases
We're all special cases.