Albert Camus Quotes - Page 17

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Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Albert Camus

Greater

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Albert Camus

Evil, Claims, Remedy

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

Albert Camus

Passion, Truth Is, Virtue

Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Albert Camus

Life, May, Interest

"The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

Liberty is dangerous.

Albert Camus

Liberty, Dangerous

Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.

Albert Camus

Children, Philosophy, Perfect

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Albert Camus

Inspirational, Life, Waiting

La Chute (The Fall) (1956)

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Albert Camus

Silence, Calamity, Plague

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

Albert Camus

Steps, Accepting, Dead Ends

Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.346, Vintage

From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.

Albert Camus

Hands, Evening, Shoulders

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.43, Vintage

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Albert Camus

Anger, Done, Lasts

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Albert Camus

Life, Taken, Discovery

Review of "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre in "Alger Républicain", (p. 5), October 20, 1938.