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Ideas Quotes by Albert Camus
- The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
- Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
- All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd…
- That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
- Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
- Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.
- No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which…
- It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
- L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
- I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate…
- I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people…
- …there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the…
- Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to…
- Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the…
- I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions…
- 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…
- The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities,…
- There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The…
- There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage…
- After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow…
- One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
More Ideas Quotes
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- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- 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
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe