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
“Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is… — 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
“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. — 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
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead… — 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
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“All facts are. In a world where everything is given and nothing is explained, the fecundity of a value or of a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. (as quoted by Tony Judt) ” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For the Greeks, values existed a priori and marked out the exact limits of every action. Modern philosophy places its values at… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts… — 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
“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his… — 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
