Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Camus: Create Happiness

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-Albert Camus

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

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

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

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

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
-Albert Camus

There is no love of life without despair of life.
-Albert Camus

Integrity has no need of rules.
-Albert Camus

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

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

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
- Albert Camus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
- Albert Camus

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

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
-Albert Camus

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