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Mind Quotes by Albert Camus
- An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
- The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold.…
- 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…
- 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…
- In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold…
- The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if…
- We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of…
- To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the…
- There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
- The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon…
- An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both…
- There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the…
- The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it…
- Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
- In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence…
- Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the…
- You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind.…
- Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone,…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle