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Believe Quotes by Albert Camus
- Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion…
- Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
- To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the…
- To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society…
- There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing…
- The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
- Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down…
- I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say…
- People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not…
- The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
- Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
- In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
- Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish.…
- I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
- Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
- I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
- Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth
- Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But…
- I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man,…
- The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it…
- Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the…
- 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 can…
- What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
- If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has…
- Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life,…
More Believe Quotes
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov