Albert Camus

(1913–1960) · French Philosopher & Author

French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist

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Albert Camus

(1913–1960) · French Philosopher & Author

French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

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