Quote of Albert Camus - Men are never really willing to...

Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Albert Camus

Quotes for: to die

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères /

I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell /

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leonardo da Vinci /

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

Philosophize is to learn how to die.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

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Quotes about freedom:

One is not born, but rather becomes, free.

André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie /

freedom

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Nelson Mandela /

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt /

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard /

Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.

- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 /

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Albert Camus also said...

The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus - Carnets /

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus - L'Été /

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

Albert Camus - Chroniques /

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Albert Camus - The Plague /

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.

Albert Camus - The Plague /

True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 /

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