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
life-is worth-living meaningless
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
death running risk
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
children simple enough
The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.
soccer football analysis
All I know of morality I learned from football
art philosophy thinking
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
christian children struggle
I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.
men forever atheism
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.
atheism want found
I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.
suicide men atheism
For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
atheism laziness able
Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
fog sea land
I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
judging today ready
Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
country travel boredom
Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
unhappy lovers cherish
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.