Albert Camus Quotes

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

By Albert Camus

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

By Albert Camus

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

By Albert Camus

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

By Albert Camus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

By Albert Camus

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

By Albert Camus

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.

By Albert Camus

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

By Albert Camus

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

By Albert Camus

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

By Albert Camus

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.

By Albert Camus

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

By Albert Camus

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

By Albert Camus

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

By Albert Camus

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

By Albert Camus

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

By Albert Camus

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

By Albert Camus

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.

By Albert Camus

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

By Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

By Albert Camus

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.

By Albert Camus

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

By Albert Camus

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

By Albert Camus

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

By Albert Camus

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?

By Albert Camus

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

By Albert Camus

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

By Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

By Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

By Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

By Albert Camus