Albert Camus Quotes

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus

Welfare, Tyrants, Particular

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus

Getting, Question, Answer

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

Music, Art, Understand

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus

God, Alone, Days

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus

Art, Freedom, Others

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus

Feeling, Face, Street

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Albert Camus

War, Made, Used

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus

Money, Happy, Spiritual

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

Friendship, Truth, Nothing

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Albert Camus

Men, Death, Sincerity

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus

Creature, Refuses

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Albert Camus

Friend, Between, Used

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus

Love, Ourselves, Deceive

We are all special cases.
Albert Camus

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert Camus

Power, State, Modern

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus

Children, Social, Needs

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert Camus

Silence, Same, Quiet

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Albert Camus

Cannot, Price, Taxes

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus

Knowledge, Mind, Find

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus

Change, Good, Great

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

Reality, Revolution, Give

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus

Stupidity, Getting, Knack

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert Camus

Alone, Learning, Real

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus

Society, Creative, Based

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus

Life, Society, Big

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 7, 1913

Died: January 4, 1960

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