Albert Camus Quotes

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

I've never met a happy atheist.

That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

Atheists are pious people.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

If there is no God, there is no hope.