Quote

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

Albert Camus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
Author
Essayist
French Resistance Fighter
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Professor
Screenwriter
Writer
Drean
Camus
Exaggerated
Doesn
Ideas
Always

More quotes by Albert Camus

Image
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Albert Camus
Image
The truth, as the light, makes blind.
Albert Camus
Image
In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.
Albert Camus
Image
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus
Image
Men die and they are not happy.
Albert Camus
Image
Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
Albert Camus
Image
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
Albert Camus
Image
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
Albert Camus
Image
I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
Albert Camus
Image
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
Albert Camus
Image
The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
Albert Camus
Image
But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.
Albert Camus
Image
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
Albert Camus
Image
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
Albert Camus
Image
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Image
How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
Albert Camus
Image
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
Albert Camus
Image
maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.
Albert Camus
Image
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Albert Camus
Image
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
Albert Camus