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
choice life sum
Life is a sum of all your choices.
begin feeling idly image life mother pass sitting understand watching window
) it is the image of this woman, sitting idly be her Algiers window indifferently watching life pass her by. He pities his mother but that is not the same as love. Feeling this detachment, he can begin to understand her unhappiness.
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.
artist lifetime deep-within
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
life-is worth-living meaningless
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
thinking stories life-is
life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
men matter life-is
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
realization life-is absurd
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
love-life despair no-love
There is no love of life without despair of life.
life personality shapes
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
life stupid mean
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
life order giving
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
life clear findings
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
life taken discovery
The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.