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
book people
History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
country men thinking
Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.
passion forgiving age
To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
italian men museums
In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.
divine-justice would-be sin
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
order strict strict-rules
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.
teacher teaching lectures
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
success way looks
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
men giving principles
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
guilt victim made
Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
truth mind denial
There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
truth believe men
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
atheist
Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.
space moments absent
I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.