Quote #76
'What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?' 'I don't know. My: my code of morals, perhaps.' 'Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?' 'Comprehension.'
More from Albert Camus
- There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time o…
- The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
- He tried to recall what he had read about the disease. Figures floated across his memory, and he recalled that some thirty or so great plag…
- The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding…
- When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent…
- There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or …
- Query: How to contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spendi…
- Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.