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
atheism want found
I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.
men want might
I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
men liberty want
...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.
wanted humans human-beings
And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.
want return stranger
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.
want ifs i-can
I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.
men want rich
Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
history want encounters
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
life want ifs
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
men want eras
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
time want littles
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
beautiful art want
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
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.
french-philosopher great last shall takes wait
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.