Albert Camus Quotes About Doubt

• An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, Life Changing, Mean

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

• Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

  Albert Camus

  Doubt, Doe, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage

• Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Doubt, Fields

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.10, Vintage

• The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.

  Albert Camus

  Christian, Religious, Men

• The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Doubt, Mind

• No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

  Albert Camus

  Waiting, Doubt, Stubborn

• What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

  Albert Camus

  Christian, Heart, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.71, Vintage

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