7 Albert Camus Quotes on Change

Albert Camus quotes on change

30. If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up.

86. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

120. Differences are the roots without which the tree of liberty, the sap of creation and of civilization, dries up.

139. Heraclitus, the discoverer of the constant change of things, nevertheless set a limit to this perpetual process. This limit was symbolized by Nemesis, the goddess of moderation and the implacable enemy of the immoderate.

168. Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

184. Our most effective terrorists, whether they are armed with bombs or with poetry, hardly escape from infancy.

203. The majority of revolutions are shaped by, and derive their originality from, murder.