Quotes by Albert Camus
111 quotes by Albert Camus
Albert Camus, French Philosopher
Was born on 07 nov 1913. Died on 04 jan 1960, at 46 years old.
Origin country: Algeria
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Quote by Albert Camus about law, nature, rules, instinct
Without freedom there is no art, art lives only through its constraints, constraints which are impose by it and dies if other constraints appear.
Quote by Albert Camus about liberty, art, magic
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, press, bad luck, bad, good, good luck
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Quote by Albert Camus about art, confession, conscience, magic, work
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Quote by Albert Camus about people, world, man
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.
Quote by Albert Camus about people, art, magic, heart, nothing, work, man
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Quote by Albert Camus about truth, nothing
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Quote by Albert Camus about art, magic
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Quote by Albert Camus about education, books, day, knowledge
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, while those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, risk, nothing
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, day, god
After a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Quote by Albert Camus about people, age, olderness, man, face
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, deeds, beginning
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Quote by Albert Camus about politics, state, power
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Quote by Albert Camus about reality, city, society, life
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Quote by Albert Camus about people, defects, numbers, things, man
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, man, face
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Quote by Albert Camus about nature, autumn, spring
