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
men reason existence
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
dying reason excellent
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
art doe reason
Art does not tolerate reason.
desert lasts reason
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
limits reason absurd
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
disgust loved might reason
After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason
doctor everybody facts knew language reason statue using
The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the language of reason but he knew he was using the language of the facts as everybody could see them - which wasn't necessarily the same thing
awaken face faces fact glow happiness man mere night seen torn vocation
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter.
war struggle world
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
men hair alive
He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.
time police law-enforcement
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
dream country night
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.
acting nazism logic
A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.
men good-man victim
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.