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
reality use symbols
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
truth firsts essentials
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
life no-hope incumbents
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
happiness lying joy
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
retirement mediocrity mediocre
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
dimensions essentials human-nature
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
faces youth minutes
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
impossible logic bitter
It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
experience-yourself justice soul
You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
joy liberty sisyphus
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
art art-is works-of-art
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
heart world chaos
I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.
philosophy men prey
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
sometimes plague humans
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.