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Reason Quotes by Albert Camus
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own…
- Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
- Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all…
- To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that…
- The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
- 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…
- The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
- Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
- She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked…
- The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
- 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…
- Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are…
- After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust…
- To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see…
- 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…
- I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When…
- What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
- For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject.…
- But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation.…
- Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this…
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong