Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Essay on tragedy. (1) The silence of Prometheus. (2) The Elizabethans. (3) Moliere. (4) The spirit of revolt.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Revolt begins first in the human heart. But there comes a time when revolt spreads from heart to spirit, when a feeling… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary,… — albert camus Copy Share Image
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Aren’t you sentient human beings? Or are you living like animals for the moment only? In that case by all means indulge… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. It… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“On the basis of the evidence, the only conclusion we can draw from Scheler’s remark is that, thanks to the theory of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Man’s solidarity is founded upon rebellion, and rebellion can only be justified by this solidarity. We then have authority to say that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is true that freedom, when it is made up principally of privileges, insults labor and separates it from culture. But freedom… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The slave protests against the condition of his state of slavery; the metaphysical rebel protests against the human condition in general. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The act of rebellion carries him beyond the point he reached by simply refusing. He exceeds the bounds that he established for… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order . — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share
