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
realization life-is absurd
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
world absurd refuge
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
men absurd conscious
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
absurd
The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
sin absurd absurdity
The absurd is sin without God.
divorce men absurdity-of-life
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
heart echoes absurdity-of-life
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
trying absurd existence
Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd
limits reason absurd
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
future historians modern sentence single suffice
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
french-philosopher great last shall takes wait
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
great judgement last secret shall takes wait
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
itself mind watches whose
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself
becoming either ends heretic oppressor revolution
Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic