To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
~ Albert Camus - [Self-knowledge]

If there is sin against life, it consistsą in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
~ Albert Camus - [Sin]

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
~ Albert Camus - [Solitude]

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
~ Albert Camus - [Struggle]

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
~ Albert Camus - [Suffering]

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest -- whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories -- comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.
~ Albert Camus - [Suicide]

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
~ Albert Camus - [Symbols]

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
~ Albert Camus - [Theory]

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
~ Albert Camus - [Totalitarianism]

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
~ Albert Camus - [Truth]

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
~ Albert Camus - [Twentieth Century]

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
~ Albert Camus - [Twentieth Century]

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
~ Albert Camus - [Virtue]

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, that it is inside ourselves.
~ Albert Camus - [Peace]

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
~ Albert Camus - [Philosophers and Philosophy]

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
~ Albert Camus - [Pity]

Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
~ Albert Camus - [Politicians and Politics]

In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
~ Albert Camus - [Potential]

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom ''charitable'' souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
~ Albert Camus - [Poverty and The Poor]

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
~ Albert Camus - [Power]