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
ideas fundamentals firsts
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
sea luxury poverty
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
god should-have ifs
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
hope no-hope
Where there is no hope, we must invent it.
intelligence gains chains
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
virtue obstinacy
Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
revenge best-revenge
The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
rights giving suffering
Suffering gives us no special rights.
suicide philosophy suicidal
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
sky feelings harmony
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
integrity law justice
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
able conscious decided
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
everyday secret logical
What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
order rebellion form
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .