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
football morality obligation
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
death peace heart
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
art struggle artist
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
real passion century
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
self water trying
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.
political cynical democracy
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
men kind human-nature
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
change fate destiny
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
practice order generosity
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
impossible turns
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
people causes innocent
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
rich poor trade
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
ideas people giving
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
believe ideas people
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.