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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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus


Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Tu ne seras jamais heureux si tu continues à chercher en quoi consiste le bonheur. Et tu ne vivras jamais si tu recherches le sens de la vie.
Albert Camus

German
Du wirst nie glücklich werden, wenn Du weiter danach forschst, woraus das Glück besteht. Du wirst niemals leben, wenn Du nach dem Sinn des Lebens suchst.
Albert Camus



See also 

See also...



The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Alan Watts

I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley



Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson / 





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau / 






All about life...




Quotes for: happiness


Quotes

Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet / 





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus / 





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.
Émile Zola - Germinal / 






All about happiness...




Quotes

Albert Camus also said...


The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus - Carnets / 





In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus - L'Été / 





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
Albert Camus - Chroniques / 





There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
Albert Camus - The Plague / 





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.
Albert Camus - The Plague / 





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 / 







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