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
guilt may shame
There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.
effort guilty virtue
In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.
judging guilt comfort
The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
judging guilt world
But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
god men guilt
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
men innocence guilty
In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
guilt victim made
Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
thinking years guilt
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.
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
becoming either ends french-philosopher oppressor
Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.