Albert Camus Quotes

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

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

Success has always been a great liar.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

Films are about lies. They're about making things look glamorous.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.