Albert Camus Quotes

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Albert Camus

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• I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Find
  • Mathematics
  • Toronto

• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Mathematics
  • Taught
  • Pure

• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Ethics

• The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Language
  • Ethics
  • Accept

• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • More
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract

• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  

  Maimonides
  • Study
  • Logic
  • Perfection

• Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Good
  • Work
  • Ethics

• A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Good
  • Religion

• Religion and ethics were not always-or even frequently-mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • God
  • Live
  • Real

• Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Death
  • Alone
  • Ethics

• That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Community
  • Ethics

• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Authority
  • Ethics
  • Concern

• There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

  

  Lenora Crichlow
  • Family
  • True
  • Personality

• The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Ethics

• There is a history of thinking about space science from an environmental ethics perspective. And part of what I want to do is turn that back and use that experience to see if it reflects how we think about the Earth.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • History

• I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone.

  

  Paul Washer
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Church

• If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

  

  Duff Goldman
  • Study
  • Ethics

• We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

  

  Anodea Judith
  • Moving
  • Greed
  • Command

• Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Relationship
  • Marriage
  • Medicine

• A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Horror

• No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Ethics
  • Mathematics
  • Command