Philosophy Quote by Albert Camus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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 excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.”

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

“It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.”

“there are truths but no truth”

“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd.”

“If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”

“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”

“What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?”

“Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.'”

“When your tears become invisible, disappear”

“But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.”