Albert Camus Quotes
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.Albert Camus
Quotes to Explore
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde -
All art is a confession.
Gaston Lachaise -
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael -
Selfishness is blind.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
Alan Garner -
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity, but you're not willing to face the rough parts and confess them, you won't get there.
David Jeremiah -
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
J. G. Holland -
I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
Abraham Lincoln -
Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
Henry Ward Beecher -
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
Socrates -
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it.
Albert Einstein
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William Hazlitt -
Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
William Graham Sumner -
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.
Erich Maria Remarque -
Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
Washington Allston -
In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.
Mac Miller -
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
Oscar Wilde -
Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.
Artie Lange -
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
Albert Camus