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

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”

“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is forbidden.”

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”

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

“Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.”

“i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right”

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

“Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.”

“I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.”

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;”

“More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”