Albert Camus Quotes

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

Moral: It all depends.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

Nothing is always absolutely so

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)