Albert Camus Quotes

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

Albert Camus

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• History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Truth
  • History
  • Study

• What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Want
  • You
  • Star

• What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • God
  • Giving

• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Body
  • Stronger
  • Waste

• I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Eyes
  • Air
  • Sun

• Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Today
  • Die
  • Moving

• They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • People
  • Women
  • Mind

• Capital formation is the greatest charity of all.

  

  Floyd Arthur Harper
  • Charity
  • Formation

• Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Failure

• I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Self-Love

• It was the horse and buggy days... horses were our life.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Life
  • Horse
  • Buggy

• There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

  

  William Gibson
  • America
  • Culture
  • Violence

• I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.

  

  Kim Thayil Soundgarden
  • Band
  • Angry
  • Role

• But there's a difference, isn't there? Between saying goodbye and death.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Death
  • Difference
  • Goodbye

• Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Private Life
  • Writings
  • Secret Of Being

• When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • People
  • Country
  • Winning

• Every level that I have ever competed on, I have risen to the top.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Levels
  • Risen

• A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Ignorance
  • Average

• In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Average
  • Reconcile
  • Risen