By Albert Camus
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
SIMILAR QUOTES
For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart.
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will, in the end, find that… the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit.
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
All failures are so because they lack social interest.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
