The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is… — 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
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world;… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in… — 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 aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze… — 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
