Albert Camus Quotes About Intelligence

• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, Life Changing, Mean

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

  Albert Camus

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Intelligent

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 41

• The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

  Albert Camus

  Feet, Intelligence, Mind

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

• Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

  Albert Camus

  Intelligence, Gains, Intensity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage

• The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

  Albert Camus

  Temptation, Intelligence, Cynicism

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

• [Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Intelligent, Stupidity

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