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

• Someone once said, People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. They forgot one other option: Some people come only to give us their contact information, let us know that we really need to get together sometime, and why don’t we give them a call?

  

  Caprice Crane
  • Together
  • Reason
  • Needs

• The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Family
  • Experience

• Rome is everybody's memory.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Memories

• Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Mind

• 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