Truth Quotes by Albert Camus

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

— Albert Camus

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

— Albert Camus

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

— Albert Camus

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

— Albert Camus

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

— Albert Camus

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

— Albert Camus

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

— Albert Camus

“One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth.”

— Albert Camus

From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.

— Albert Camus

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

— 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 get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. Richard Baker

— Albert Camus

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to…

— Albert Camus

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

— Albert Camus

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

— Albert Camus

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long…

— Albert Camus

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

— Albert Camus

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,…

— Albert Camus

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times…

— Albert Camus

“You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was enough for…

— Albert Camus

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must…

— Albert Camus

“The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the…

— Albert Camus

“How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A liking for the truth at all costs is a passion that spares nothing…

— Albert Camus

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary,…

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We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is…

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“Yes, he liked his face as he saw it there, his mouth quivering around the cigarette between his lips and the apparent…

— Albert Camus

“Our old Europe at last philosophizes in the right way. We no longer say as in simple times: 'This is the way…

— Albert Camus

“At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have…

— Albert Camus

There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has…

— Albert Camus

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force…

— Albert Camus

Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they…

— Albert Camus

“A ridiculous fear pursued me, in fact: one could not die without having confessed all one's lies. Not to God or to…

— Albert Camus

“In a moment, when I throw myself down among the absinthe plants to bring their scent into my body, I shall know,…

— Albert Camus

“there are truths but no truth.”

— Albert Camus

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

— Albert Camus

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

— Albert Camus

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of…

— Albert Camus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

— Albert Camus

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

— Albert Camus