To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
- Topic: Criticism, Judgment, Values
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Albert Camus
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
I rebel; therefore I exist.
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized.
To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place the come down and shoot the survivors.
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
Do not peer too far.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
