Q0108

Albert Camus

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
Thinker Albert Camus
School Philosophy of the Absurd
Source The Plague
Theme Humanity
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Source context

This English passage is associated with The Plague, within the tradition of Philosophy of the Absurd. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of humanity, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Albert Camus's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

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MLA: Albert Camus. “There are more things to admire in men….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0108.

Chicago: Albert Camus. “There are more things to admire in men….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0108.

Same thinker

More from Albert Camus

  1. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
  2. There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
  3. I rebel — therefore we exist.
  4. Rebellion cannot do without the notion of a limit — it stops at human dignity.
  5. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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Same theme

More on humanity

  1. Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means.
  2. Man is a sacred thing to man.
  3. In choosing himself, man chooses all men.
  4. Sincerity is the Way of Heaven; making oneself sincere is the way of human beings.
  5. Of all things the measure is man.

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