Quotes About Philosophy

I might not be human. I might be nothing more than a set of algorithms, running on a spacesuit with a corpse inside it. But I'm not a monster.

Consider the world as an abode where in you have dropped down for an hour, then you have got to leave it and go ahead; or (suppose it is) like the wealth which you lay hands upon in a dream and become over-joyed and glad. Then you wake up to find yourself empty handed.

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.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

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

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

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.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.