The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt (Vintage International)

by Albert Camus

Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.

I rebel—therefore we exist.

“An end that requires unjust means is not a just end.

“Intelligence,” says Lazare Bickel, “is our faculty for not developing what we think to the very end, so that we can still believe in reality.” Approximative thought is the only creator of reality.1