"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
~ Albert Camus ~
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
More Albert Camus quotes
"Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
"Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way...
"...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might again...
"If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic...
"The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and ...
"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
"God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh...
"We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.
"The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefo...
"Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased f...
"In vain a zealous evangelist with a fely hat and flowing tie threads his way through the crowd, crying without cease: 'God is great and good. Come unt...
"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
"We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.