Quotes from 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.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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

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

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

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

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

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.