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Albert Camus

Születési dátum: 7. november 1913
Halál dátuma: 4. január 1960

Albert Camus Nobel-díjas francia író és filozófus, az egzisztencializmus egyik meghatározó alakja.

Idézetek Albert Camus

„Demokrata végül is az, aki elfogadja, hogy ellenfelének igaza lehet, következésképpen hagyja őt megnyilatkozni, és kész elgondolkodni érvein. Amikor pártok és emberek annyira meggyőzve érzik magukat a saját igazukról, hogy készek erőnek erejével befogni a nekik ellentmondók száját, nincs többé demokrácia.“

ford. Fekist

Camus à „Combat” Éditoriaux et articles (1944-1947) [2002]. 665. old. (Édition de Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi, Collection Cahiers Albert Camus [No 8], Gallimard) ISBN 2070759423.
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Demokrácia, Emberek

„Miközben Rieux a városból felszálló örömujjongást hallgatta, arra gondolt, hogy ez az öröm mindig veszélyben van. Mert ő tudta azt, amit nem tud ez a vidám tömeg, de a könyvekben olvasható, hogy a pestis bacilusa sohasem pusztul el, sem el nem tűnik, mert évtizedeken át szunnyadhat a bútorokban és a fehérneműben, türelmesen várakozik a szobákban, a pincékben, a bőröndökben, a zsebkendőkben és a limlomokban, s hogy eljő tán a nap, amikor a pestis, az emberek szerencsétlenségére és okulására, felébreszti majd patkányait, és elküldi őket, hogy egy boldog városban leljék halálukat.
A pestis“

— Albert Camus

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ford. Győry János
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Öröm, Emberek, Nap, Halál

„Demokrata végül is az, aki elfogadja, hogy ellenfelének igaza lehet, következésképpen hagyja őt megnyilatkozni, és kész elgondolkodni érvein. Amikor pártok és emberek annyira meggyőzve érzik magukat a saját igazukról, hogy készek erőnek erejével befogni a nekik ellentmondók száját, nincs többé demokrácia.“

— Albert Camus

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Demokrácia, Emberek

„Az én szerepem nem lehet az, hogy átalakítsam a világot: mert ehhez nincsen elegendő kiváló tulajdonságom; nem vagyok eléggé tisztán látó. De talán szolgálhatok, ahol tudok avval a néhány értékkel, amely nélkül ez a világ, még ha változik is, életre nem érdemes, amely nélkül az ember, még az újkor embere sem érdemes a tiszteletre.“

— Albert Camus

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Világ, életkor, Emberek

„Semmi kétség, hogy egy háború valóban merő ostobaság, ám ez nem gátolja meg abban, hogy sokáig tartson. Az ostobaság mindig rendületlen, s erre rá is jön az ember, ha nem gondolna mindig önmagára.“

— Albert Camus

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Háború, Ostobaság, Emberek

„Minden generáció azt hiszi, hogy hivatva van átalakítani a világot. Az enyém azonban tudja, hogy nem fogja átalakítani. De feladata talán még nagyobb: abban áll, hogy megakadályozza a világ széthullását.“

— Albert Camus

A Nobel-díj átvételekor mondta.
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Világ, Feladatok

„A nemezisz éber, ő a mérték és nem a bosszú Istennője. Mindenkit, aki a határokat átlépi, kérhetetlenül megbüntet.“

— Albert Camus

A lázadó ember
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Bosszú

„A legázolt, bilincsbe vert Magyarország többet tett a szabadságért és igazságért, mint bármelyik nép a világon az elmúlt 20 esztendőben. Ahhoz, hogy ezt a leckét megértse a fülét betömő, a szemét eltakaró nyugati társadalom, sok magyar vérnek kellett elhullnia — s ez a vérfolyam most már alvad az emlékezetben. A magára maradt Európában csak úgy maradhatunk hívek Magyarországhoz, ha soha és sehol el nem áruljuk, amiért a magyar harcosok az életüket adták, és soha, sehol — még közvetve sem — igazoljuk a gyilkosokat. Nehéz minékünk méltónak lenni ennyi áldozatra.“

— Albert Camus

A magyarok vére (1957)
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Igazság, Világ, életkor, Szabadság

„Az elidegenedés megragad bennünket: érzékeljük, hogy a világ tömör, sejtjük, mennyire idegen egy kő, áthatolhatatlan számunkra, és hogy mekkora intenzitással tagad minket a természet vagy a táj… A világ kicsúszik kezünkből és megint önmaga lesz… Az abszurd a kérdező ember és az oktalanul hallgató világ szembenállásából keletkezik… Sziszüphosz elgondolkodik azon az összefüggő cselekmény-sorozaton, amelyet emlékezetének pillantása forraszt egybe, és amelyre nemsokára halála üt pecsétet… De Sziszüphosz a felsőbbrendű hűséget hirdeti, amely tagadja az isteneket és felemeli a sziklákat… Nem létezik az a sors amit a megvetés nem képes legyőzni… Ő a sorsból emberi ügyet csinál, amelyet az emberek közt kell szabályozni.“

— Albert Camus

Sziszüphosz mítosza
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Hűség, Természet, Emberek, Sors

„When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man.“

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— Albert Camus, könyv Reflections on the Guillotine

Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)
Kontextus: When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

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„But aspects cannot be added up.“

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— Albert Camus, könyv The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
Kontextus: If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. <!-- 159

„You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture.“

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— Albert Camus, könyv The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus
Kontextus: You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth. Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.

„There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.“

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— Albert Camus, könyv The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays by Albert Camus, An Absurd Reasoning : Absurdity and Suicide p. 3 (1942, 1955)
Absurdity and Suicide
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
Kontextus: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest – whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories – comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer. And if it is true, as Nietzsche claims, that a philosopher, to deserve our respect, must preach by example, you can appreciate the importance of that reply, for it will precede the definitive act. These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect. If I ask myself how to judge that this question is more urgent than that, I reply that one judges by the actions it entails. I have never seen anyone die for the ontological argument.

„If Nietzsche and Hegel serve as alibis to the masters of Dachau and Karaganda, that does not condemn their entire philosophy.“

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— Albert Camus, könyv The Rebel

The Rebel (1951)
Kontextus: If Nietzsche and Hegel serve as alibis to the masters of Dachau and Karaganda, that does not condemn their entire philosophy. But it does lead to the suspicion that one aspect of their thought, or of their logic, can lead to these appalling conclusions.

„Of all the schools of patience and lucidity, creation is the most effective.“

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— Albert Camus, könyv The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Kontextus: Of all the schools of patience and lucidity, creation is the most effective. It is also the staggering evidence of man's sole dignity: the dogged revolt against his condition, perseverance in an effort considered sterile. It calls for a daily effort, self-mastery, a precise estimate of the limits of truth, measure, and strength. It constitutes an ascesis. All that "for nothing," in order to repeat and mark time. But perhaps the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man and the opportunity it provides him of overcoming his phantoms and approaching a little closer to his naked reality.

„Hungary conquered and in chains has done more for freedom and justice than any people for twenty years.“

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— Albert Camus

The Blood of the Hungarians (1957)
Kontextus: Hungary conquered and in chains has done more for freedom and justice than any people for twenty years. But for this lesson to get through and convince those in the West who shut their eyes and ears, it was necessary, and it can be no comfort to us, for the people of Hungary to shed so much blood which is already drying in our memories. In Europe's isolation today, we have only one way of being true to Hungary, and that is never to betray, among ourselves and everywhere, what the Hungarian heroes died for, never to condone, among ourselves and everywhere, even indirectly, those who killed them. It would indeed be difficult for us to be worthy of such sacrifices.

„These are the Grand Inquisitors who imprison Christ and come to tell Him that His method is not correct, that universal happiness cannot be achieved by the immediate freedom of choosing between good and evil, but by the domination and unification of the world.“

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— Albert Camus, könyv The Rebel

Part 2: Metaphysical Rebellion
The Rebel (1951)
Kontextus: Alyosha can, in fact, treat Ivan with compassion as a "real simpleton." The latter only made aa attempt at self-control and failed. Others will appear, with more serious intentions, who, on the basis of the same despairing nihilism, will insist on ruling the world. These are the Grand Inquisitors who imprison Christ and come to tell Him that His method is not correct, that universal happiness cannot be achieved by the immediate freedom of choosing between good and evil, but by the domination and unification of the world. The first step is to conquer and rule. The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth, but it will be ruled over by men — a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand — and later, with time, by all men. The unity of all creation will be achieved by every possible means, since everything is permitted. The Grand Inquisitor is old and tired, for the knowledge he possesses is bitter. He knows that men are lazy rather than cowardly and that they prefer peace and death to the liberty of discerning between good and evil. He has pity, a cold pity, for the silent prisoner whom history endlessly deceives. He urges him to speak, to recognize his misdeeds, and, in one sense, to approve the actions of the Inquisitors and of the Caesars. But the prisoner does not speak.

„I served to make known and disseminate her work whose full impact we have yet to measure.“

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— Albert Camus

A letter to Weil's mother in 1951 http://simoneweil.net/lesautres.htm
Variant translation: The only great spirit of our time.
As quoted in Between the Human and the Divine : The Political Thought of Simone Weil (1988) by Mary G. Dietz, Introduction, p. xiv
Kontextus: Simone Weil, I maintain this now, is the only great spirit of our times and I hope that those who realize this have enough modesty to not try to appropriate her overwhelming witnessing.
For my part, I would be satisfied if one could say that in my place, with the humble means at my disposal, I served to make known and disseminate her work whose full impact we have yet to measure.

„At this point of his effort man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.“

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— Albert Camus, könyv The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
Kontextus: At this point of his effort man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be forgotten. This must be clung to because the whole consequence of a life can depend on it. The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter — these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable.

„Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living.“

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— Albert Camus, könyv The Stranger

The Stranger (1942)
Kontextus: I don't know why, but something inside me snapped. I started yelling at the top of my lungs, and I insulted him and told him not to waste his prayers on me. I grabbed him by the collar of his cassock. I was pouring out on him everything that was in my heart, cries of anger and cries of joy.
He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. Whereas it looked as if I was the one who'd come up emptyhanded. But I was sure about me, about everything, surer than he could ever be, sure of my life and sure of the death I had waiting for me. Yes, that was all I had. But at least I had as much of a hold on it as it had on me. I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so? It was as if I had waited all this time for this moment and for the first light of this dawn to be vindicated. Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn't he see, couldn't he see that? Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too. <!-- translated by Matthew Ward