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Philosophy Quotes by Albert Camus
- Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
- There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
- Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
- Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
- Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
- An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both…
- Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
- It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled…
- There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the…
- A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
- We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their…
- There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the…
More Philosophy Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon