Quotes about philosophy
250 quotes from 124 people
Giordano Bruno1548–1600Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
Albert Camus1913–1960Absurdity and SuicideAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus1913–1960An Absurd Reasoning- Albert Camus1913–1960“Three Interviews” in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)
- Albert Camus1913–1960The Rebel (1951), Introduction
A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Rebel (1951), Part 2: Metaphysical RebellionThe realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Albert Camus1913–1960Review of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in the newspaper Alger Républicain (20 October 1938), p. 5- Albert Camus1913–1960The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), “The Absurd Man”
- Albert Camus1913–1960The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), “An Absurd Reasoning”
- Albert Camus1913–1960The Rebel (1951), Introduction
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Essays, Goethe’s Works.The world is unfathomable. And so are we, and so is every being that exists in this world.
CCCarlos Castaneda1925–1998The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe (1998), Quotations from “Tales of Power” (Chapter 10)
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The New JerusalemIn the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
