Quote of Albert Camus - Man wants to live, but it...

Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Albert Camus

Quotes for: to live

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom /

To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.

René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy /

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.

Blanche Pierson /

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Alan Watts /

My trade and art is to live.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.

Alan Watts /

All to live quotes...

Quotes about action:

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus /

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

Paul Valéry - Tel quel /

action

Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding /

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt /

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Henri Bergson /

All about action...

Albert Camus also said...

The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus - Carnets /

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus - L'Été /

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

Albert Camus - Chroniques /

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Albert Camus - The Plague /

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.

Albert Camus - The Plague /

True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 /

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