Albert Camus quotes - page 18

But slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or by a taste for the superhuman, in one sense cripple judgment. On the day when crime dons the apparel of innocence - through a curious transposition peculiar to our times - it is innocence that is called upon to justify itself. (Albert Camus)
These are the Grand Inquisitors who imprison Christ and come to tell Him that His method is not correct, that universal happiness cannot be achieved by the immediate freedom of choosing between good and evil, but by the domination and unification of the world. View quote
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I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest. View quote
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Hungary conquered and in chains has done more for freedom and justice than any people for twenty years. View quote
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If Nietzsche and Hegel serve as alibis to the masters of Dachau and Karaganda, that does not condemn their entire philosophy. View quote
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. View quote
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We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. View quote
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You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. View quote
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In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. View quote
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But aspects cannot be added up. View quote
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It happens as well that the feeling of the absurd springs from happiness. (Albert Camus)
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. View quote
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The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives. View quote
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There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. View quote
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I don't know whether or not it has been sufficiently pointed out that it is not an outburst of relief or of joy, but rather a bitter acknowledgment of a fact. View quote
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Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. View quote
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. View quote
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No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life. View quote
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Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live. View quote
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Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests. View quote
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It was as if I had waited all this time for this moment and for the first light of this dawn to be vindicated. (Albert Camus)
But the prisoner does not speak. View quote
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When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. View quote
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The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. View quote
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Of all the schools of patience and lucidity, creation is the most effective. View quote
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