Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert Camus

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Albert Camus

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus

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

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.
Albert Camus

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

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

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert Camus

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Albert Camus

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

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus

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

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

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert Camus