108 Quotes By Albert Camus


Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus on nature

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

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Albert Camus on peace

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus on religion

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus on respect

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

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

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.
Albert Camus on society

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus on society

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.
Albert Camus on teacher

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.
Albert Camus on time

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus on time

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

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus on truth

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus on truth

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

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 on war

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

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.
Albert Camus on work