Life is Absurd. How to Live it? | ALBERT CAMUS

French-Algerian philosopher Albert Camus believed that life has no inherent meaning and is, therefore, absurd.

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[bing]

So what Camus is basically saying is that: You can do what you want with your life because there is no certain reason how your life should be. The true nature of the universe is randomness and freedom. Those are powerful thoughts, I like that guy.

[timetraveler]

"Is there anything more rebellious than to actually find joy in what is supposed to be our punishment?"

[gldistrict]

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus

[AlcibiadesMD]

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer"...Albert Camus.

[salahsalah]

"reject hope, return to monke"
- Albert Camus

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

"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."
--Albert Camus

[rustkarl]

Life is meaningless.
Meaningless doesn’t mean awful.

It just means that you can create your own perspective, and make the best of what your life is.

[voraxity]

Dude finally my profile pic will be noticed somewhere.
"One must imagine Sysyphus happy"

[insidiousmaximus]

Can't believe YouTube gives a pop up trigger warning before playing this video!! Viewer discretion advised on a video about Camus. How absurd!

[MrWitty]

“All I know about life is that I don’t know anything about life, and that’s all I really need to know about life”

[kimhsamh]

who else thinks its just super cool and great to live in an infinite, absurd, indifferent "universe " where eventually nothing really matters! It never ceases to amaze me how people take themselves and what they do so seriously! “The literal meaning of life is just whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” - Albert Camus.

[ViewbobTrue]

I don't know why everyone finds the idea of life being meaningless so sad. I think it's cool as hell! A meaningless life is a blank train ticket to whatever you desire!

[falkharvard]

The most ridiculous people I've ever met were the ones who forget they are animals.

[RTO]

When I was 18-19 I had a very hard existential crisis because of reaching to these conclusions on my own. I thought that I had to give my life a meaning, but as today (5 years later) I haven't and probably will never do. People who have life goals scare me. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, how am I going to set an objective to fulfill in 50 years? It's surely going to change. Pandemics happen. People come and go. Be kind with those who surround you, love them back, and try to make your immediate situation better. And do whatever you enjoy.

[Mariana]

I love how you explained it, many people think Camus was just a depressed dude that wanted to share that depression that comes with a nihilistic worldview. But he actually was really hopeful and explained the meaning of life in a different and rather beautiful way: take ahold of your life and make it fully yours even if it's not.

[unreactive]

So I've just finished one of Camus' books and it got me an existential crisis.

[HotelMariMaker]

Currently reading Camu’s novel “The Plague.” Couldn’t have picked a better time to read it!

[GiulianoCiolacu]

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

[szandrakaracsonyi]

I love philosophy so much because when I'm in the most depressed mood it gives me joy and happiness. Thank you so much for this video. ❤

[jaysalud]

"Is there anything more rebelious than to actually find joy in what's supposed to be our punishment" Most powerful line I've heard in a long time.