Philosophy Quotes by Albert Camus

“There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”

— Albert Camus

“Cuando no se tiene carácter hay que seguir un método.”

— Albert Camus

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

— Albert Camus

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

— Albert Camus

“There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.”

— Albert Camus

“People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.”

— Albert Camus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

— Albert Camus

“There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.”

— Albert Camus

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

— Albert Camus

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

— Albert Camus

“Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.”

— Albert Camus

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the…

— Albert Camus

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

— Albert Camus

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

— Albert Camus

“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”

— Albert Camus

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

— Albert Camus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts…

— Albert Camus

“Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be…

— Albert Camus

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead…

— Albert Camus

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy…

— Albert Camus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts…

— Albert Camus

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a…

— Albert Camus

“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky…

— Albert Camus

“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge…

— Albert Camus

It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the…

— Albert Camus

“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything…

— Albert Camus

“It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and…

— Albert Camus

“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his…

— Albert Camus

“All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule.…

— Albert Camus

“For the Greeks, values existed a priori and marked out the exact limits of every action. Modern philosophy places its values at…

— Albert Camus

“I was at ease in everything, to be sure, but at the same time satisfied with nothing. Each joy made me desire…

— Albert Camus

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

— Albert Camus

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

— Albert Camus

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

— Albert Camus

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

— Albert Camus

“Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas.”

— Albert Camus

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

— Albert Camus

“There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that two and two make four is punished…

— Albert Camus

“All facts are. In a world where everything is given and nothing is explained, the fecundity of a value or of a…

— Albert Camus

“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. (as quoted by Tony Judt) ”

— Albert Camus