Albert Camus

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. ”

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. ”

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. ”

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. ”

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. ”

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. ”

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. ”

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. ”

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. ”

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. ”