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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 32

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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 world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

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 world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

Light, Essence, Ideas

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.45, Vintage

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Eye, History, Finals

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.289, Vintage

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

Ideas, Fundamentals, Firsts

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Regret, Significant, Myth Of Sisyphus

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.18, Vintage

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

Spring, Winter, Midst

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Unjust, Never Change, Lows

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

Heart, Men, Thinking

Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.

Happiness, Mistake, Spring

"The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1955.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

Peace, Fighting, Evil

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.285, Vintage

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

Distance, Reality, Men

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Death, Peace, Heart

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.234, Vintage

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

Would Be, Clear, Saved

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.27, Vintage

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

Dominion, Said, Plague

Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

Forgiveness, Ideas, Forgiving

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Kind, Slave, Masters

Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.

Wall, Destiny, Rebel

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.27, Vintage

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

Family, Happiness, Mother

O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

Summer, Drama, Character

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.202, Vintage

Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.

Term, Humans

Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.129, Vintage

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

Prejudice, Marxism

Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

Real, Lying, Men

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.39, Vintage

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

Fate, Men, Joy

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.

Men, Heaven, Earth

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.60, Vintage

The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

Men, Transcendental, Without God

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.

Men, Escaping, Majority

"The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

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