Author: Albert Camus
Brief Info: French philosopher, author, and journalist
Years Lived: 1913-1960
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Quotations
An Invincible Summer
topics: humanism
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
From the book Lyrical and Critical Essays
— 1952
The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance
topics: critical thinking, education
The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened…. There is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.
From the book The Plague
— 1947
Work, Soul and Life
topics: value creation
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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