Saint Iscariot
Seigneur Camus
While some rebels are interwoven with the reactionaries, other rebels posses formidable minds. I introduce you to Seigneur Camus.
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”
“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."
"A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object."
“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”
“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.”
“I rebel; therefore we exist.”
“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
"We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink."
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
“A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.”
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
“We are all special cases."
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
“We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.”
“Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my
revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of
consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation
to death—and I refuse suicide.”
“One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.”
“Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.”
“…He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. Whereas it looked as if I was the one who’d come up emptyhanded. But I was sure about me, about everything, surer than he could ever be, sure of my life and sure of my death I had waiting for me… I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn’t done that… Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I’ve lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people’s deaths or a mother’s love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we’re all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers?”
“And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.”
“The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.”
"Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful."
Quote Source -> www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/957894.Albert_Camus
Quote Source -> secure.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/en/wiki/Albert_Camus
The Rebel (Full Book) -> www.scribd.com/doc/26635034/Camus-Albert-The-Rebel
Seigneur Camus
While some rebels are interwoven with the reactionaries, other rebels posses formidable minds. I introduce you to Seigneur Camus.
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”
“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."
"A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object."
“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”
“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.”
“I rebel; therefore we exist.”
“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
"We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink."
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
“A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.”
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
“We are all special cases."
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
“We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.”
“Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my
revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of
consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation
to death—and I refuse suicide.”
“One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.”
“Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.”
“…He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. Whereas it looked as if I was the one who’d come up emptyhanded. But I was sure about me, about everything, surer than he could ever be, sure of my life and sure of my death I had waiting for me… I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn’t done that… Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I’ve lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people’s deaths or a mother’s love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we’re all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers?”
“And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.”
“The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.”
"Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful."
Quote Source -> www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/957894.Albert_Camus
Quote Source -> secure.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/en/wiki/Albert_Camus
The Rebel (Full Book) -> www.scribd.com/doc/26635034/Camus-Albert-The-Rebel