You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions

Quote by Albert Camus

Topics: Freedom Quotes

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I...

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I...

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only...

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only...

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they...

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they...

Murder is terribly exhausting.

Murder is terribly exhausting.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

Integrity has no need of rules.

Integrity has no need of rules.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to...

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to...

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in...

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in...

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and...

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and...

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile....

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile....

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.