Albert Camus Quotes
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We writers must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
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All I know of morality I learned from football.
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
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To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.
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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
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Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
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There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
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The only way out of international dictatorship is to place international law above governments, which means that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.
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There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
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Without freedom there is no art.
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The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.