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

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

“God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, for I have known what is worse, the judgement of men. For them, no extenuating circumstances; even the good intention is ascribed to crime. Have you at least heard of the spitting cell, which a nation recently thought up to prove itself the greatest on earth? A walled-up box in which the prisoner can stand without moving. The solid door that locks him in the cement shell stops at chin level. Hence only his face is visible, and every passing jailer spits copiously on it. The prisoner, wedged into his cell, cannot wipe his face, though he is allowed, it is true. to close his eyes. Well, that, mon cher, is a human invention. They didn't need God for that little masterpiece.”

“Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!”

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

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

“We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.”

“We shouldn’t use ‘should’ too much.”

“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

“There is life in walking, but death in running - there is life in communication, but death in talking - there is life in awareness, but death in judgement - so, be the life my friend, without the judgement, without the talking, without the running - simply be the life, full with sparkling communications, revelatory awareness and heart-warming walks.”

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”