"And real nobility (that of the heart)..." - Quote by Albert Camus
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
More by Albert Camus
“Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.”
“A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.”
“People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.”
More on Nobility
“That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.”
“How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!”
“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
More on Character
“Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.”
“Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.”
“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”