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
passion liberty three
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
men liberty want
...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.
justice liberty contradiction
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
men greatness liberty
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
freedom justice liberty
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
ideas liberty degradation
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
leader effort liberty
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
time style liberty
Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.
liberty world conquer
The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.
liberty exciting dangerous
Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
liberty dangerous
Liberty is dangerous.
lying liberty
Liberty is the right not to lie.
joy liberty sisyphus
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
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.