Albert Camus Quotes About Consciousness

• Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Consciousness, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.43, Vintage

• A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

  Albert Camus

  Office, Clerks, Common

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Passion, Three

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.64, Vintage

• You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Mistake, Thinking

  "Happy Death".

• A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Office, Clerks

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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