One does not decide the truth of a thought according to whether it is right-wing or left-wing." - Meaning and context.">
Letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, 30 June 1952.
 • As quoted in Paris after the Liberation: 1944-1949 by Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper.

One does not decide the truth of a thought according to whether it is right-wing or left-wing.

— Albert Camus

What It Means

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 • As quoted in Paris after the Liberation: 1944-1949 by Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Albert Camus

About Albert Camus

Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French Pied-Noir author, absurdist philosopher and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.