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
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An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself
men order mind
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
men feelings mind
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
men judging-yourself mind
You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.
play mind
...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
light mind borders
Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
truth mind denial
There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
life doubt mind
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
feet mind suffering
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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.
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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.
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Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic
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Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.