Albert Camus Quotes

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Light itself is a revelation.

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

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

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible.

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.