Albert Camus

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

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

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

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares 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.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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

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

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

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

- Albert Camus