In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.Camus' own philosophy was grounded in absurdism, which refers to the inherent conflict.This conflict often causes a certain amount of tension, and these tensions can cause anxiety and doubt if left unresolved.<ul><li> Many believe that life has no inherent meaning, and it is therefore up to us to decide our own meaning.</li><li> Others believe that meaning can be found in the world around us, and we have to be open to it when it presents itself.</li></ul>Here are some of his philosophical quotes:

Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.

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.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

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

You’re worried about getting things successfully done in order to attain some degree of self-worth. Your soul is for sale; You most likely deceive yourself in order to convince yourself. Letting go equals failing, isn’t that right? And you forget outstandingly well, don’t you? You forget that It takes admirable courage not only to try but also to gracefully give up.

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist, awarded the 
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.

His work includes The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall and The Rebel. Camus' 
own philosophy was grounded in absurdism, which refers to the inherent 
conflict present in many of us when we have a tendency to seek meaning and 
value in life but are ultimately unable to find it with certainty.

ALBERT CAMUS

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