All Albert Camus Quotes
- You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Acquire
- Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history. Accepting
- Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny… Certain
- The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken… Absurd
- There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness. Clear
- The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. Idealist
- From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes. Caesar
- There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Futile
- Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority. Civil Rights
- To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion. Compassion
- It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. Art
- Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which… Become Deadly
- How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Any
- Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. Clearly
- It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Finance
- You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. Consent
- Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for… Fate
- I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if… Belief
- Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the… Absent
- Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian Behave
- I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. Day
- To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. Richard Baker Baker
- A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . .… Bad
- Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Better
- To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the… Lay