Albert Camus Quotes

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

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

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

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

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

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

God is dead!

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

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

I don't believe in God.

While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls.

If there is no God, there is no hope.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.

Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our children and grandchildren are to live in a country that still recognises God and upholds religious liberty.

I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're here, faith... all of these bigger questions that I think we can place in films that allow us to question and give us a safe place to feel. Those types of questions can pop up in all sorts of different types of films - drama, comedy, action movie.

I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in.

I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I am definitely inclined toward asking the big questions.

I've never met a happy atheist.

The absurd is sin without God.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.