Albert CamusThinkers

The Absurd is the conflict between man's inherent search for meaning and man's inherent inability to ever discover it.

The Absurd hero is an individual who acknowledges the truth of the absurd and accepts it, embraces the freedom it bestows upon him, and thereby overcomes it. Sisyphus is the epitome of the absurd hero.

Art is extant in order not to die of life.

Art would not exist if all the world were clear.

The Artist is he who is responsible for the preaching in a world that has ceased to believe in sin.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

The City is a remedy to life in society and the only desert within our means.

Courage is a thing where those who lack it will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Freedom of the press is capable of being either good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

A Government is, by definition, absent of conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Happiness is nothing but the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.