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
heart sublime indifference
He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe
eye fate people
There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye
evil history historical
Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
time long take-time
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
peace war winning
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
love beauty time
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
love life occupation
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
meaning-of-life would-be stills
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
struggle imagine flakes
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
knowledge responsibility intelligent
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
ends feels
To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
melancholy
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
freedom 4th-of-july independence
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
ideas people giving
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.