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Humans Quotes by Albert Camus
- He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
- Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the…
- If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I…
- Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
- I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need…
- A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to…
- The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
- One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But…
- He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to…
- There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.
- The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.
- Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the…
- Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
- What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never…
- The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
- All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A…
- 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…
- Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our…
- Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded…
- Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those…
- For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
- I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be…
- They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
- He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — 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
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- 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