Quote of Albert Camus - The absurd is born of the...

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 born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus

Translation

(French, German)

L'absurde naît de cette confrontation entre l'appel humain et le silence déraisonnable du monde.

Albert Camus - Le Mythe de Sisyphe

Das Absurde entsteht aus diesem Zusammenstoß zwischen dem Ruf des Menschen und dem vernunftlosen Schweigen der Welt.

Albert Camus - Der Mythos des Sisyphos

Quotes about silence:

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo - William Shakespeare /

Silence is often the truest wisdom.

Pindar /

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

If you have words stronger than silence, speak. If you do not have them, then remain silent.

Euripides /

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon /

All about silence...

Quotes about the world:

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence /

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy /

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

All about the world...

Quotes about human nature:

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus /

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray /

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation /

I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.

Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos /

Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

Bertrand Russell /

Be humanity evermore our goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

All about human nature...

Quotes for: absurd

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy /

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Voltaire - Questions sur les Miracles /

Absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus /

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Baruch Spinoza /

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.

M. C. Escher - Quotation of uncertain origin /

Whoever wants to deceive people must first of all make absurdity plausible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections /

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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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