I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Quote by Albert Camus

Topics: Belief Quotes, Conviction Quotes, God Quotes, Living Quotes

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom...

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom...

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only...

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only...

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence...

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence...

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a...

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a...

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the...

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the...

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name...

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name...

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free...

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free...

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even...

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even...

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I...

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I...

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not...

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not...

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy...

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy...

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is...

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is...