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
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. – Albert Camus
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. – Albert Camus
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. – Albert Camus
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus
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
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. – Albert Camus
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. – Albert Camus
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
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. – Albert Camus
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. – Albert Camus
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. – Albert Camus
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. – Albert Camus
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. – Albert Camus
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. – Albert Camus
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. – Albert Camus
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. – Albert Camus
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. – Albert Camus
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
