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
action assert continue knew ourselves psychology self-knowledge shape thinking
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
thinking psychology action
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
philosophy thinking telling-the-truth
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
art philosophy thinking
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
thinking stories life-is
life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
thinking-of-you thinking wells
Am well. Thinking of you always. Love
death thinking race
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
thinking people normal
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
mean thinking facts
In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one’s thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one’s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live.
men thinking despair
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On both perhaps.
character men thinking
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.
mean thinking lunch
She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.
thinking consciousness sisyphus
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
thinking ends resolve
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.