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
feelings way needs
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
integrity people needs
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
integrity needs ethics
Integrity needs no rules.
sweet pain needs
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
unity principles needs
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'
writing stronger needs
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
suicide suicidal needs
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
writing needs genius
Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.
time art needs
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
art hipster needs
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
honesty integrity needs
Integrity has no need of rules.
moon world needs
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.
art would-be needs
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
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.