We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing). — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Thinking is learning all over again to see, to be attentive, to focus consciousness; it is turning every idea and every image,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But it is bad to stop, hard to be satisfied with a single way of seeing, to go without contradiction, perhaps the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And when it comes down to it, you realize that no one is really capable of thinking of anyone else, even in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful… He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are… — 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
