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
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love.