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Albert Camus Quotes
«The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Acre, acres, artificial, carnal, center of the universe, condemns, corresponding, disappear, exchange, figures, fortunes, handled, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, ideally, ingot, measures, merchants, operations, ruling, ruling class, Society of, thereby, The Center, The Ruling Class
«Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
actual, assassin, efficiency, historical, human existence, Human potential, in terms of, tasks, The Assassin, The Assassins
«Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
adolescents, aging, complacency, cowardly, malignant, survives
«If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.»
«The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ceaselessly, condemned, dreadful, fall back, futile, hopeless, rolling, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stones, Sisyphus, The Rolling Stones, whence
«In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Funerals
| Keywords:
condemned, condemned to death, funeral, his mother, liable
«Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Revolution
| Keywords:
crossroad, crossroads, revolt, The Police
«In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
aberration, aberrations, childish, directing, equilibrium, follies, inheriting, justifies, Left Behind, naively
«The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
capitalist, eloquent, eulogies, eulogy, in so far, out-of-date
«Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
mouths, occasion, on occasion, possesses, shuts