Quotes by Camus, Albert

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."

Camus, Albert on knowledge   

"If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

Camus, Albert on sin
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"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

Camus, Albert on solitude   

"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

Camus, Albert on struggle   

"In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day."

Camus, Albert on suffering   

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest -- whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories -- comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."

Camus, Albert on suicide
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"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

Camus, Albert on beauty
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"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd."

Camus, Albert on beauty   

"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images."

Camus, Albert on books - reading   

"The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date."

Camus, Albert on capitalism   

"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously."

Camus, Albert on certainty   

"Integrity has no need of rules."

Camus, Albert on character
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Camus, Albert on charm
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"The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial."

Camus, Albert on symbols   

"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."

Camus, Albert on theory   

"One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves."

Camus, Albert on totalitarianism   

"We call first truths those we discover after all the others."

Camus, Albert on truth   

"Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career."

Camus, Albert on twentieth century   

"The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude."

Camus, Albert on twentieth century   

"Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil."

Camus, Albert on virtue   

"Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened."

Camus, Albert on work   

"The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge."

Camus, Albert on world
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"What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians."

Camus, Albert on christians and christianity   

"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means."

Camus, Albert on life   

"A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them."

Camus, Albert on consciousness   

"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."

Camus, Albert on crime and criminals   

"Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny."

Camus, Albert on culture   

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."

Camus, Albert on culture   

"There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed."

Camus, Albert on death   

"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death."

Camus, Albert on death   

"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely."

Camus, Albert on death   

"My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury of our history: Let us rejoice. Let us rejoice, indeed, at having witnessed the death of a lying and comfort-loving Europe and at being faced with cruel truths. "

Camus, Albert on uncategorised   

"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you dont help us, who else in the world can help us do this?"

Camus, Albert on uncategorised   

"De romanwereld is niets anders dan een correctie op deze wereld, in navolging van het diepe verlangen van de mens."

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"In the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman"

Camus, Albert on existence