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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

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 taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Albert Camus

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Albert Camus

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Albert Camus

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Albert Camus

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

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

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Albert Camus

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus

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

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Albert Camus

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Albert Camus

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Albert Camus

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

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

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

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

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

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

Albert Camus

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Albert Camus

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Albert Camus

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Albert Camus

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

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

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.

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

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

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Albert Camus

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Albert Camus

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

Albert Claude

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

Albert Claude

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

Albert Claude

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

Albert Claude

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

Albert Claude

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Albert Einstein

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein