I rebel, therefore we exist.
Je me revolte, donc nous sommes.
Philosophers
Albert Camus
Born in French Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus grew up in poverty amid the Mediterranean light and the shadow of death. He crystallized the concept of 'the absurd' in The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, affirming that even in a meaningless universe, defiant persistence gives human life its dignity. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature at 44 in 1957. After his break with Sartre, he held firm to a philosophy of freedom and solidarity that refused to be co-opted by ideology.
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Albert Camus's Other Quotes
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
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One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
-- Albert Camus
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
-- Søren Kierkegaard
Subjectivity is truth.
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Man is condemned to be free.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
-- Blaise Pascal
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be at home in oneself.
-- Michel de Montaigne