Quote #238
Unity and diversity, and never one without the other...
More from Albert Camus
- Totality is, in effect, nothing other than the ancient dream of unity common to both believers and rebels, but projected horizontally onto …
- Utopia replaces God by the future. Then it proceeds to identify the future with ethics; the only values are those which serve this particul…
- Totalitarian tyranny is not based on the virtues of the totalitarians. It is based on the mistakes of the liberals.
- Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. Nor can it identify itself completely with reality without…
- To work and create 'for nothing,' to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day whi…
- We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight th…
- To tell the truth, far from being romantic, I believe in the necessity of a rule and an order. I merely say that there can be no question o…
- We have a right to think that truth with a capital letter is relative. But facts are facts. And whoever says that the sky is blue when it i…