Albert Camus Quotes About Human Nature

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

  Albert Camus

  Funny, Positivity, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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

  Albert Camus

  Motivational, Change, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Kind, Human Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.238, Vintage

• The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

  Albert Camus

  Essentials, Dimensions, Human Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.277, Vintage

• In order to exist, man must rebel.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Order, Challenges

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

• Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.

  Albert Camus

  Self Worth, Men, Greek

  "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

• What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

  Albert Camus

  Crush, Believe, Desire

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