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Quote by Albert Camus
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. - Albert C

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus

Other quotes by Albert Camus

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. – Albert Camus

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

Category:
Nature
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Albert Camus
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When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives. – Albert Camus

Category:
Mankind, Man
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Humankind
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787

Category:
Humankind

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

Category:
Humankind

Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. – Malcolm de Chazal

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Humankind

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. – Niccolò Machiavelli

Category:
Humankind

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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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power

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

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By keeping my hand in that, its the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients. – Andrew Weil

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Our life is made by the death of others. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Death