Albert Camus

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”

“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.”

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.”

“Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.”

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

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

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

“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.”

“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”

“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.”

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

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”

“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”

“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.”

“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.”

“In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.”