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
risk being-loved
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
truth firsts
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
happiness ambition air
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
hands essentials logic
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
crush heart fate
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
lying three categories
A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
happiness son two
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
trying absurd existence
Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd
men silence world
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
motivational inspiring should
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
noble demand rebellion
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
world culture persuasion
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
happiness happy success
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
suicide philosophy philosophical
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.