Albert Camus Quotes on Belief
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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.
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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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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.
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Suffering is never provisional for the man who does not believe in the future.
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The nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in their most profound manifestations, are centuries that have tried to live without transcendence.
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To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
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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.