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Ideology
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
-Albert Camus
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Individuality
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
-Albert Camus
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Innocence
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
-Albert Camus
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Integrity
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Integrity has no need of rules.
-Albert Camus
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Justice
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
-Albert Camus
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Life
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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
-Albert Camus
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
-Albert Camus
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
-Albert Camus
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
-Albert Camus
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
-Albert Camus
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Live to the point of tears.
-Albert Camus
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
-Albert Camus
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Love
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
-Albert Camus
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Mankind, Man
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When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.
-Albert Camus, The Fall
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Manners
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
-Albert Camus, La Chute, 1956
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Martyr, Martyrdom
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.
-Albert Camus
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Media
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
-Albert Camus
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Mind, the
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The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, 1955
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Money
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
-Albert Camus
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
-Albert Camus
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Murder
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
-Albert Camus
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Music
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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.
-Albert Camus
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
-Albert Camus
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Nature
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
-Albert Camus
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Necessity
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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
-Albert Camus
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Books by and about Albert Camus