Quotes by Philosophers

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. Albert Camus

Passion Real Real Passion Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Servitude

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. Albert Camus

Happiness Difficult Heroism More Accessible

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. Albert Camus

Life Personality Our Ourselves Shape Knew Perfectly Continue Die Should

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. Albert Camus

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. Albert Camus

Only Fact Famous In Fact Landlady

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. Albert Camus

Death Struggle Reality Speak About Know Common Order Against Us Sea Unite Things Rains Necessity Desire

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. Albert Camus

Life Lose Give Normal Order Little Away

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. Albert Camus

Me History Natural Everything Correct Sun Indifference Misery Between Well Half-Way Taught Placed Believing Kept

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. Albert Camus

Love You Experience Exhausted Always Reverence Really

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. Albert Camus

Love Man Back Once Small He Idea His Precious Turns

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. Albert Camus

Culture Men Face Destiny Cry

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. Albert Camus

Reality World Rebellion Thought Become Revolution Our Claim Our World Give Lead Name Ideologies Methods Which Consent

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Albert Camus

God Alone Master Dreadful Weight Days Without Anyone Who

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. Albert Camus

Work Single Every Preserves Says Draws Throughout Lifetime He Crumble Him Within His Source Up Artist Which Deep

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. Albert J. Nock

Life Mathematics Knowledge History You Remember Will Lost Gone Cargo Only Obliged Higher He Him His Much Languages Useful Useful Knowledge Useless Useless Knowledge Original Whole

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. Albert J. Nock

Learning Culture Pedantry Otherwise Diligent Must Forgetting Process

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment. Albert J. Nock

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. Albert J. Nock

Money Power Own Too State Well None Understood Just Unfortunately

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. Albert J. Nock

Knowledge Culture Considered Define Possession Has-Been Well Been Truly May Forgotten Body Useless Useless Knowledge Large Now

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. Albert J. Nock

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? Albert J. Nock

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. Albert J. Nock

Learning Culture World Made Pedantry Pretty Throughout Well Always Been Itself Forgetting Modern Expense Established Modern World Much Therefore