The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.

La lutte elle-meme vers les sommets suffit a remplir un coeur d'homme.

Albert Camus

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.

View this figure's profile

Albert Camus's Other Quotes