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History Quotes by Albert Camus
- Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
- 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…
- Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
- Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned…
- Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with…
- The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute…
- History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
- In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our…
- A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
- If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its…
- But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while.…
- But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished…
- 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…
- If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
- When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one…
- Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
- 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…
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough