Albert Camus

"Passion and rebellion remain the two forces that move the world."

"What matters is not whether we are right, but that we continue to think."

"True greatness lies in simplicity of thought and purity of action."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"We must accept that there is no salvation, only moments of grace."

"The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown."

"Life is what happens while you are making other plans—but also what you must face when those plans fail."

"There is a nobility in admitting uncertainty about the most important things."

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, and is only precious because it lasts."

"The role of the intellectual is to say that power is always wrong, regardless of who wields it."

"In times of darkness and despair, joy becomes an act of rebellion."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."

"The most important thing is not how to win, but how to accept inevitable loss."

"To lose one's illusions about the human condition is to begin to see clearly."

"There is no punishment without a sense of guilt, and no guilt without the possibility of innocence."

"We cannot live like expatriates within our own countries, pretending we belong to somewhere else."

"Every authentic revolution is a spiritual revolution, not merely a political one."

"The only way to deal with an apocalypse is to learn to live with it."

"What makes life worth living is not having the answers, but continuing to ask the questions."

"Tyranny is comfortable, which is why it is so difficult to oppose."

"The greatest human endeavor is not to succeed, but to endure with dignity."

"We are all stained with the blood of others; the question is what we choose to do about it."

"Love without hope is hate that hides itself."

"The most effective way to oppose tyranny is through the power of indifference."

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, love only what we understand, and understand only what we are taught."

"True peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to live with it."

"The struggle against inevitable fate is the only meaningful human activity."

"There is one thing that is scandalous: life itself."

"We must strive to become worthy of our suffering."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."