"False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones."
- Albert Camus
"What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support."
"What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others."
"I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."
"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..."
"The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absur..."
"...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, ..."
"In vain a zealous evangelist with a fely hat and flowing tie threads his way through the crowd, crying without cease: 'God is great and good. Come unto Him.' On the contrary, they all make haste towar..."
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable."