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
rights giving suffering
Suffering gives us no special rights.
revenge best-revenge
The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
virtue obstinacy
Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
feelings may intense
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
flower hands separation
To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
work punishment hopeless
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
people suffering crowds
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
thinking atheism habit
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
thinking years guilt
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.
intellectual violence sides
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
freedom thinking belief
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
law yesterday trials
Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
lying writing commitment
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
giving unloved misfortunes
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.