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
no-hope
When there is no hope, one must invent hope.
hands evening breeze
From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
sea promise matter
No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
men absurd conscious
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
art mean men
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
liberty exciting dangerous
Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
speaks-out silence abuse
When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
facts serious speak
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
intellectual way west
It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
heart loss exercise
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.
creating talent produce
There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
men luck world
To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.
responsibility privilege
Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.
proof begin-again persons
Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.