Albert Camus Quotes About Philosophy
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
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The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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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 halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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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 with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.
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There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
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To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
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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.
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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 fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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