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
love-life despair no-love
There is no love of life without despair of life.
men thinking despair
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On both perhaps.
self despair disease
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
nihilism desire despair
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
great-love despair conquer
You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
life despair alive
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
life despair habit
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
falling-in-love despair existentialism
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
against consists despairing grandeur hoping implacable life perhaps sin
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
answering judging life living question serious truly whether worth
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
admire men
...There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
against approve defend firing obliged shall whatever
Listen, Tar, ... This is the real problem: whatever happens, I shall always defend you against the firing squad. But you will be obliged to approve my being shot. Think about that.
again against despite ending fight personal record relentless saints terror unable
It could only be a record of what had had to be done, and what assuredly would have to be done again in the never ending fight against terror and its relentless onslaughts, despite personal afflictions, by all who, while unable to be saints but refus
actual existence human potential speaks terms today whoever
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.