Quote of Albert Camus - Those who lack the courage will...

Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Quote

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
Albert Camus

Quotes about philosophy:

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.”
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

philosophy

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Ludwig van Beethoven

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All about philosophy...

Quotes about courage:

Have courage to use your own reason!”
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

courage

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
Michel de Montaigne

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain

There is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without struggle.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Albert Camus also said...

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus - L'Été

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.”
Albert Camus - Chroniques

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
Albert Camus - The Plague

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.”
Albert Camus

Absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.”
Albert Camus

I revolt, therefore I am.”
Albert Camus - L'Été

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