“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
Albert Camus
CreativityLiving Fully
Albert Camus Quotes
French - Philosopher|November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960
50 FAMOUS QUOTES · PHILOSOPHER
Albert Camus Quotes
Read 50 of the best Albert Camus quotes on freedom, happiness, rebellion, truth and the absurd from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Stranger and The Plague.
“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love: first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
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LoveRelationships
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
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ExperienceLife Lessons
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
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BeautyEternity
“There is no love of life without despair of life.”
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Love Of LifePhilosophy
“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
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Human ConditionWit
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
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RespectFear
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
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BeginningsCreativity
“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
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IgnoranceThe Plague
“What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”
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AdversityThe Plague
“There are more things to admire in men than to despise.”
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HumanityThe Plague
“The habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
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HopeThe Plague
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
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ArtPurpose
“No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.”
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JusticePeace
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”
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TyrannyFreedom
“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
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PatriotismJustice
“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
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GovernmentConscience
“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
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Free PressFreedom
“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
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CultureCreativity
“Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating.”
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TruthLiberty
“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
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CreativitySociety
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
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ReflectionSolitude
“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
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TruthPassion
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
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The AbsurdPhilosophy
“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
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PeaceSociety