Albert Camus quotes

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
Albert Camus

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge
is in books.
Albert Camus

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus

Having money is a way of being free of money.
Albert Camus

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

Life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great
minds have taken as their starting point.
Albert Camus

What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash
them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
Albert Camus

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
Albert Camus

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing
in the world.
Albert Camus

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
Albert Camus

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate
commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided
by ourselves.
Albert Camus

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
Albert Camus

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies
in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which
refuses to be classified as an object.
Albert Camus