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Albert Camus

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


— Albert Camus


#definition #government #more #nothing #policy

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.


— Albert Camus


#fill #happy #heart #heights #imagine

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


#bad #certainly #course #free #free press

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.


— Albert Camus


#every #every day #judgment #last #place

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


#always #comes #evil #good #good intentions

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.


— Albert Camus


#based #despicable #fear #more #nothing

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


#after #best #books #collection #days

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.


— Albert Camus


#any #asked #charm #clear #getting

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.


— Albert Camus


#ethics #man #upon #wild #wild beast

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


#believe #friends #good #good opinion #honest






About Albert Camus






Did you know about Albert Camus?

Soon after the event on 6 August 1945 he was one of the few French editors to publicly express opposition and disgust to the United States' dropping the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. To distinguish his ideas scholars sometimes refer to the Paradox of the Absurd when referring to "Camus's Absurd".

In an interview in 1945 Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked. In 1949 Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis's Citizens of the World movement of which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

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