Quotes about men
men desire useless
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. Albert Camus
men individuality trying
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
men important execution
How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
men irony hunger
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
men two self
That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
men evil world
What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
men greatness liberty
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
men order rebel
In order to exist, man must rebel.
men simplicity arrogance
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
men matter indifference
For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
men suffering cry
Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
men innocence guilty
In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
men transcendental without-god
The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.
men class privileged
There is only one class of men, the privileged class
men becoming action
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
men absurd conscious
A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
men luck world
To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.
men giving principles
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
men two four
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
men giving tragedy
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.
men would-be vices
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
men want rich
Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
men illustration order
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.
men office clerks
A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.
men years two
To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
men heaven earth
The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.
men escaping world
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
men careers sometimes
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.
men heaven doe
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?
men saint fellowship
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
men bitterness bitter
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
men kind human-nature
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
men land essence
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.