Albert Camus Quotes About Logic

• There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Passion, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

• It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

  Albert Camus

  Impossible, Logic, Bitter

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.9, Vintage

• 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 therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

  Albert Camus

  Doe, Logic, Classic

• Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

  Albert Camus

  Forever, Psychology, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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

  Albert Camus

  Forgiveness, Republic, Impossible

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.124, Vintage

• There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, Essentials, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.50, Vintage

• A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

  Albert Camus

  Acting, Nazism, Logic

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