All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Next day Tarrou set to work and enrolled a first team of workers, soon to be followed by many others. However, it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last… — 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
“Out with it, Tarrou! What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?” “I don’t know. My code of morals,… — 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
What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — 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 one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
