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Albert Camus Quotes

Albert Camus quotes about humanity

French Philosopher, Writer November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960

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Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. Albert Camus
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot... Albert Camus
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. Albert Camus
Albert Camus quote: "He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who..."
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. Albert Camus
He stated that I had no place in a society whose most fundamental rules I ignored and that I could not appeal to the same human heart whose elementary response I knew nothing of. Albert Camus
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history. Albert Camus
The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable Albert Camus
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart. Albert Camus
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself. Albert Camus
Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary. Albert Camus
Albert Camus quote: "Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was..."
Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Albert Camus
Albert Camus quote: "And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there..."
And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Albert Camus
Albert Camus quote: "The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants."
The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants. Albert Camus

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