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

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

“What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.”

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

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

“And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten—since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably. Still, somehow this line of thought wasn't as consoling as it should have been; the idea of all those years of life in hand was a galling reminder!”

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

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”

“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.”

“down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss”

“Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.”

“Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.”

“Że też w tym kraju każdy kelner jest filozofem i każdy filozof kelnerem.”