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
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.
life rebel existentialism
I rebel; therefore I exist.
children men perfect
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
self giving solitude
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
mistake men waiting
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.
dream people elsewhere
I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.