Albert Camus Quotes

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

Italians think with their heads.

I'm always quite rational.