Albert Camus Quotes

Everything is self-evident.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

Plain as a pike-staff.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

Yes, light, there is no other word for it.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

I definitely need clarity.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

I'm a huge believer in clarity.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.