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Albert Camus

Quote of Albert Camus - The absurd is the essential concept...


Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.



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Quotes for: concept


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Quotes for: concept


Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.





The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.





Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.





Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.





Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.





Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals.











Quotes for: truth


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Quotes for: truth


To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Love truth, but pardon error.





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





The language of truth is simple.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.











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Albert Camus also said...


The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.





In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





There are more things to admire in men than to despise.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.












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