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He Quotes by Albert Camus
- But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
- At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far…
- Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
- He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
- After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
- Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
- Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe.…
- 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…
- The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That…
- Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the…
- The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and…
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle