“On the basis of the evidence, the only conclusion we can draw from Scheler’s remark is that, thanks to the theory of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. It… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is true that freedom, when it is made up principally of privileges, insults labor and separates it from culture. But freedom… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. — 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
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order . — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in… — 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
“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary,… — albert camus Copy Share Image
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. — 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
