75 Quotes by Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist who is best known for his existentialist works, including "The Stranger" and "The Myth of Sisyphus." Camus's philosophy emphasized the absurdity of human existence and the importance of living authentically in the face of this absurdity. He believed that life had no inherent meaning, but that individuals could create meaning for themselves through their actions and choices. Camus was also a vocal critic of totalitarianism and a proponent of human rights, and his work continues to inspire people around the world today. (Bio)
Albert Camus Quotes
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. (Meaning)
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. (Quote Meaning)
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. (Meaning)
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. (Quote Meaning)
The society based on production is only productive, not creative. (Meaning)
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. (Quote Meaning)
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. (Meaning)
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. (Quote Meaning)
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. (Meaning)
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. (Quote Meaning)
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. (Meaning)
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question. (Quote Meaning)
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. (Meaning)
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. (Quote Meaning)
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. (Meaning)
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. (Quote Meaning)
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. (Meaning)
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. (Quote Meaning)
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. (Meaning)
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. (Quote Meaning)
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. (Meaning)
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. (Quote Meaning)
I know of only one duty, and that is to love. (Meaning)
At the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. (Quote Meaning)
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. (Meaning)
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. (Quote Meaning)
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.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. (Meaning)
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. (Quote Meaning)
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. (Meaning)
What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? (Quote Meaning)
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. (Meaning)
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (Quote Meaning)
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Meaning)
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
Find your happiness in yourself.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. (Quote Meaning)
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. (Meaning)
You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. (Quote Meaning)
I rebel; therefore I exist.
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. (Meaning)
Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. (Quote Meaning)
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. (Meaning)
The innocent is the person who explains nothing
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
Integrity has no need of rules. (Quote Meaning)
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.
When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
― Albert Camus Quotes
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