Albert Camus Quotes

Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.

Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.

I think that a lot of times Mr. Peanutbutter is absolutely speaking directly to the audience and saying basic, human truths that we need to hear.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

The wise are wise only because they love.

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.