Existentialism

🇫🇷Albert Camus

Literature

continental philosophy

1913–1960

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

🇫🇷Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophy

Existentialism

1908–1986

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"

Lev Shestov

Philosophy

Christian existentialism

1866–1938

"What can be more terrible than not to know whether one is alive or dead? “Justice” should insist that this knowledge or this ignorance should be the prerogative of every human being. p. 3"

🇺🇸Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)

Literature

Existentialism

1921–1980

"The most obvious failure of organized religions is surely that almost all of them have made a mockery of what their founders taught."