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Albert Camus

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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.


— Albert Camus


#god #religion #believe

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [The Minotaur]


— Albert Camus


#retreat #solitude #understanding

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.


— Albert Camus


#compassion #life #religion #life

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.


— Albert Camus


#truth #free

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.


— Albert Camus


#judgement

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.


— Albert Camus


#death #execution #intelligence #scholars #thinkers

You can't create experience, you undergo it.


— Albert Camus


#experience

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.


— Albert Camus


#existentialism #honesty #seeking #truth #desire

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.


— Albert Camus


#better #chance #nothing

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep


— Albert Camus


#lecture #philosophy #sleep #sleep






About Albert Camus






Did you know about Albert Camus?

Soon after the event on 6 August 1945 he was one of the few French editors to publicly express opposition and disgust to the United States' dropping the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. To distinguish his ideas scholars sometimes refer to the Paradox of the Absurd when referring to "Camus's Absurd".

In an interview in 1945 Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked. In 1949 Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis's Citizens of the World movement of which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

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