Psychology Quotes by Albert Camus

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

— Albert Camus

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

— Albert Camus

“The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.”

— Albert Camus

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

— Albert Camus

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

— Albert Camus

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

— Albert Camus

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

— Albert Camus

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

— Albert Camus

“I had never been able to truly feel remorse for anything. My mind was always on what was coming next, today or…

— Albert Camus

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert…

— Albert Camus

“The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply…

— Albert Camus

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds…

— Albert Camus

“the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished and squandered.”

— Albert Camus

“Forever I shall be a stranger to myself, kupo. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.”

— Albert Camus

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

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great…

— Albert Camus

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is…

— Albert Camus

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy…

— Albert Camus

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands…

— Albert Camus

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued…

— Albert Camus

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can…

— Albert Camus

“At a certain degree of lucid intoxication, lying late at night between two prostitutes and drained of all desire, hope ceases to…

— Albert Camus

What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained…

— Albert Camus

“Only the modern city,” Hegel dares write, “offers the mind a field in which it can become aware of itself.” We are…

— Albert Camus

“Every man has felt himself to be the equal of a god at certain moments. But this comes from the fact that…

— Albert Camus

“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and…

— Albert Camus

Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with…

— Albert Camus

“For the plague-stricken their peace of mind is more important than a human life. Decent folks must be allowed to sleep easy…

— Albert Camus

“Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as…

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“I'm still of the same mind. For many years I've been ashamed, mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions,…

— Albert Camus

“Likewise the mind that aims to understand reality can consider itself satisfied only by reducing it to terms of thought.”

— Albert Camus

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is…

— Albert Camus

“I would have liked to have tried explaining to him cordially, almost affectionately, that I had never been able to truly feel…

— Albert Camus

It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned…

— Albert Camus