Albert Camus Quotes

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

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• 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

• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Nervous

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

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Reason
  • King
  • Lion

• My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • Always

• If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Reason
  • Tax

• As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Why
  • Song
  • Reason

• Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Reason
  • Mad
  • Rage

• My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • First

• Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Reason
  • Jealous
  • Ladies

• Don’t just look at the problem that you face; look at the reason behind it

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Face

• The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Action
  • Reason
  • Film

• Let's just be clear: The reason this has been making headlines is because Donald Trump was discussing and bragging about sexual assault 11 years ago on a bus.It's not Hillary Clinton who put those words in his mouth.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Words
  • Reason
  • Trump

• The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reason
  • Afraid
  • Terror

• Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Recognize

• Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Reason

• She had such a young sense of humor. Every single thing that went wrong or was funny for any reason, she laughed herself stupid about it -- it kept us all sane.

  

  Prince William
  • She
  • Funny
  • Single

• There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Obedient

• The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

  

  Aristotle
  • Reason
  • Suffering
  • Judge

• I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Except

• I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Judge
  • Self-Defense

• Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Reason
  • Boundaries
  • Grees