Albert Camus Historical Quotations

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.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.