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 happiness happy
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
fate men
Fate is not in man but around him
men conscious
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
writing needs genius
Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.
doubt revolution doe
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
life success humor
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
world loveless
A loveless world is a dead world.
government definitions politics
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
life tragedy easy
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
time art needs
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
justice crowns slave
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
peace humanity battle
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
philosophy cowardice
There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
reality evil becoming
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.