Albert Camus Quotes

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

There is never just one way in politics.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

The most universal quality is diversity.

This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

One line plus one line results in many meanings.

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see which has people in it who believe a variety of different things.

Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.