7 Albert Camus Quotes on Reality

Albert Camus quotes on reality

28. At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

55. The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us.

69. There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

101. A little thought estranges from life, whereas much thought reconciles to life. Unable to refine the real, thought pauses to mimic it.

227. To a man devoid of blinders, there is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that transcends it.

233. To impoverish that reality whose inhumanity constitutes man's majesty is tantamount to impoverishing him himself. I understand then why the doctrines that explain everything to me also debilitate me at the same time. They relieve me of the weight of my own life, and yet I must carry it alone.

240. Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. Nor can it identify itself completely with reality without denying itself.