Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Freedom is nothing else but the chance to do better. -- Camus | |
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics. -- Albert Camus | |
Status Substitution: Using an object with intellectual or fashionable cachet to substitute for an object that is merely pricey: "Brian, you left your copy of Camus in your brother's BMW." -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" | |
Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. -- Tom Robbins | |
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. -- Albert Camus | |
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. -- Albert Camus | |
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool. -- Albert Camus | |
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. -- Albert Camus | |
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. -- A. Camus |