Albert Camus Quotes

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

Life is consciousness.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

How do you prove we exist? Maybe we don't.

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.