Quote of Albert Camus - There is no shame in preferring...

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

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

Albert Camus - The Plague

happiness

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

Translation

(French, German)

Il n'y a pas de honte à préférer le bonheur.

Albert Camus - La Peste

Es ist keine Schande, das Glück vorzuziehen.

Albert Camus - Die Pest

Quotes about happiness:

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.

Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus /

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.

Émile Zola - Germinal /

happiness

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.

Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu /

All about happiness...

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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