Albert Camus Quotes

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 alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

Albert Camus

• Reason
• Sincerity
• Skepticism
• Sufferings
• Doubtful

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Reason

• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Nothing

• I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Reason
  • Goals
  • Achieving

• A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Reason
  • King
  • Lion

• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Divine

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Reason
  • Mountain
  • Skiing

• If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Knowledge
  • Deep
  • Sincerity

• Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Way
  • Reason

• It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Reason
  • Intuition

• For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Incline

• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Reason
  • Fact

• I had this dream...that we had this new sixth member, for some reason, and he actually ended up being quite horrible! And he started a fight with me! And I wanted him to go away and none of the boys were helping me!

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Reason

• Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Up
  • Success
  • Giving

• Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

  

  T. H. White
  • War
  • Reason
  • Dozen

• In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

  

  Anne Baxter
  • Liberty
  • Charity
  • Unity

• I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Question
  • Reason
  • Curiosity

• The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attention
  • Reason

• Violence is sometimes a duty.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Violence
  • Duty

• If you want to talk, you should try being a vacuum cleaner salesman. I only want footballers.

  

  Ernst Happel
  • Salesman
  • Footballers

• Well-apparel'd April on the heel Of limping Winter treads.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Spring
  • Winter
  • April

• It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • People
  • Evil
  • Enough

• It is the shared experience - [although] you're the conduit of the sound, the recipient is also in some way the author of the work, because if they weren't the author of the work they wouldn't be able to recognise it as an experience, you could argue. The more distance you can put between yourself and having any kind of objective the more likely it is to appear.

  

  Daniel O'Sullivan
  • Distance
  • Experiences
  • Arguing

• 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 alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Reason
  • Sincerity
  • Skepticism