But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Always go far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
- Topic: Truth
- Location: Mount Rainier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Albert Camus
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
I rebel; therefore I exist.
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More on Truth
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
