7 Albert Camus Quotes on Belief

Albert Camus quotes on belief

31. I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

84. Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

116. By what right, moreover, could a Christian or a Marxist accuse me, for example, of pessimism? I was not the one to invent the misery of the human being or the terrifying formulas of divine malediction.

189. Suffering is never provisional for the man who does not believe in the future.

209. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in their most profound manifestations, are centuries that have tried to live without transcendence.

231. To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

237. Totality is, in effect, nothing other than the ancient dream of unity common to both believers and rebels, but projected horizontally onto an earth deprived of God.