"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide"
"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage"
"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear"
"Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion"
"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing"
"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them"
"We are all special cases"
"The society based on production is only productive, not creative"
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion"
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better"
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world"
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession"
"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad"
"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful"
"After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion"
"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books"
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"
"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face"
"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things"
"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means"
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself"
"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State"
"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door"
"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm"
"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"
"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor"
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding"
"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never"
"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions"
"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"
"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way"
"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone"
"We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible"
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself"
"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well"
"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything"
"To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady"
"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more"
"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies"
"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others"
