[ albert camus Quotes ]
44 Quotations
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
[ Books - Reading ]
Albert Camus
24 votes
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
[ Consciousness ]
Albert Camus
13 votes
Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
[ Faces ]
Albert Camus
9 votes
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
[ Greatness ]
Albert Camus
25 votes
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
[ Absurdity ]
Albert Camus
8 votes
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
[ Happiness ]
Albert Camus
21 votes
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
[ Government ]
Albert Camus
9 votes
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
[ Charm ]
Albert Camus
13 votes
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
[ Culture ]
Albert Camus
7 votes
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
[ Rebellion ]
Albert Camus
18 votes
Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
Albert Camus
14 votes
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
[ Pity ]
Albert Camus
7 votes
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
[ Existence ]
Albert Camus
16 votes
In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
[ Potential ]
Albert Camus
11 votes
Integrity has no need of rules.
[ Character ]
Albert Camus
12 votes
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
[ Money ]
Albert Camus
12 votes
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
Albert Camus
14 votes
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
[ Giving ]
Albert Camus
22 votes
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
[ Dissatisfaction ]
Albert Camus
5 votes
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
[ Life, Lust For ]
Albert Camus
22 votes
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
[ Respectability ]
Albert Camus
9 votes
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
[ Totalitarianism ]
Albert Camus
8 votes
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
[ Nonviolence ]
Albert Camus
13 votes
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
[ Life and Living ]
Albert Camus
11 votes
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
[ Aristocracy ]
Albert Camus
20 votes
That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
[ Ambiguity ]
Albert Camus
12 votes
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
[ Innocence ]
Albert Camus
8 votes
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
[ Production ]
Albert Camus
10 votes
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
[ Principles ]
Albert Camus
11 votes
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
[ Production ]
Albert Camus
11 votes
There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
[ Judgment and Judges ]
Albert Camus
15 votes
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
Albert Camus
17 votes
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
[ Arts and Artists ]
Albert Camus
22 votes
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
[ Virtue ]
Albert Camus
19 votes
We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
[ Necessity ]
Albert Camus
8 votes
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
[ Rebellion ]
Albert Camus
6 votes
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
[ Christians and Christianity ]
Albert Camus
7 votes
You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
[ Experience ]
Albert Camus