Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.


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As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to kn...
ALBERT ELLIS
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
ALBERT CAMUS
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
ALBERT CAMUS
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
ALBERT CAMUS
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
ALBERT CAMUS
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither t...
ALBERT CAMUS
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a ...
ALBERT CAMUS
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
ALBERT CAMUS
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
ALBERT CAMUS
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as i...
ALBERT CAMUS
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every o...
ALBERT CAMUS
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
ALBERT CAMUS
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...
ALBERT CAMUS
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
ALBERT CAMUS
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
ALBERT CAMUS
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
ALBERT CAMUS
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of phil...
ALBERT CAMUS
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into ...
ALBERT CAMUS
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common ...
ALBERT CAMUS
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries...
ALBERT CAMUS
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
ALBERT CAMUS
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them togethe...
ALBERT CAMUS
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws...
ALBERT CAMUS
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew...
ALBERT CAMUS
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
ALBERT CAMUS
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
ALBERT CAMUS
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
ALBERT CAMUS
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most ...
ALBERT CAMUS
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the c...
ALBERT CAMUS
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
ALBERT CAMUS
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
ALBERT CAMUS
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know...
ALBERT CAMUS
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it...
ALBERT CAMUS
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to ...
ALBERT CAMUS
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
ALBERT CAMUS