Quotes by Albert Camus

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.