"A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened." ~ Albert Camus ♥30SharePinTweet3 SharesLife QuotesLove Quotes
"Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world." ~ Albert Camus ♥21SharePinTweet1 SharesHappiness
"I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life." ~ Albert Camus ♥35SharePinTweet22 SharesLife QuotesLove QuotesQuotes Gallery
"We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others." ~ Albert Camus ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." ~ Albert Camus ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. " ~ Albert Camus ♥32SharePinTweet3 SharesLife QuotesLove Quotes
"Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter." ~ Albert Camus ♥23SharePinTweet1 SharesLife QuotesQuotes Gallery
"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing." ~ Albert Camus ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day." ~ Albert Camus ♥26SharePinTweet1 SharesPositiveQuotes Gallery
"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism." ~ Albert Camus ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't." ~ Albert Camus ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. " ~ Albert Camus ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts." ~ Albert Camus ♥23SharePinTweet0 SharesPositive
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." ~ Albert Camus ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." ~ Albert Camus ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." ~ Albert Camus ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." ~ Albert Camus ♥22SharePinTweet2 SharesQuotes Gallery
" My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests." ~ George Santayana ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. Scepticism and Animal Faith, 1923 " ~ George Santayana ♥29SharePinTweet2 SharesLife Quotes
" Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." ~ George Santayana ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim." ~ George Santayana ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. Persons and Places: The Middle Span, 1945" ~ George Santayana ♥147SharePinTweet0 SharesFriendshipWomen
" The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.The Life of Reason, 1905-1906" ~ George Santayana ♥157SharePinTweet2 SharesFriendshipLife QuotesWomen
" An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. The Life of Reason, 1905-1906" ~ George Santayana ♥26SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament." ~ George Santayana ♥25SharePinTweet2 SharesLife Quotes
" Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived. The Life of Reason, 1905-1906 " ~ George Santayana ♥20SharePinTweet2 SharesLife QuotesLove Quotes
" ... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence." ~ George Santayana ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it." ~ George Santayana ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
