“To correct a natural indifference, I was placed halfway between poverty and the sun. Poverty kept me from thinking all was well… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the… — 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
The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But we do not congratulate a schoolmaster on teaching that two and two make four, though we may, perhaps, congratulate him on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four… — 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
“Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. — 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
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
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how… — 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
“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with… — 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
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and… — 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
