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
divine-justice would-be sin
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
reality uprising names
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
sin absurd absurdity
The absurd is sin without God.
kissing fire trying
Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss
brother blessing hands
If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.
rights duty uncompromising
Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
mistake blessing giving
No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.
power historical assassins
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
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.
against consists despairing grandeur hoping implacable life perhaps sin
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life
against consists grandeur hoping implacable life sin
If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
against french-philosopher grandeur hoping implacable life sin
If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.