Quotes by Albert Camus

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956)

Lived from: 1913 - 1960

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 7 november 1913 Died: 4 january 1960

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  • 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 Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
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  • The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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  • The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
    Original: Le besoin d'avoir raison - marque d'esprit vulgaire.
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  • The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
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  • The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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  • The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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  • The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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  • The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.
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  • The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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  • The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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  • The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
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  • The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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  • The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
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  • There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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  • There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
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  • There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
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  • Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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  • Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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  • To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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  • To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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