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Man Quotes by Albert Camus
- But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
- A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in…
- 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…
- The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
- What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
- Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
- Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
- At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
- How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
- Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
- Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
- Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
- Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
- The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
- For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts…
- 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…
- In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in…
- In order to exist, man must rebel.
- The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,…
- In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of…
- Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of…
- 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…
- The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.
More Man Quotes
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle