Lyrical and Critical Essays

Albert Camus

“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity.”

Camus on the three antidotes to life’s absurdity:

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus

“The body’s judgment is as good as the mind’s, and the body shrinks from annihilation. We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”

Albert Camus on the will to live and the most important question of existence:

Lyrical and Critical Essays

Albert Camus

Albert Camus on how to expand our love of life and why we travel:

A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning

Robert Zaretsky

A Life Worth Living — Albert Camus on our search for meaning and why happiness is our moral obligation:

Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

Sean B. Carroll

“Being aware of one’s life, one’s revolt, one’s freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.”

How the unlikely, trying WWII friendship of Nobel-winning scientist Jacques Monod and Nobel-winning philosopher Albert Camus shaped modern culture – an incredible, heartening story: