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

• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Money
  • Creation
  • Mathematics

• 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

• It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Game
  • Role
  • Theory

• What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Lost
  • Forever

• If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it. Our vertical expression must have a horizontal effect. So, we'll continue to worship, praise and honour God with heart, soul, mind and strength the best we know how, but the fruit of that must be a generation who are totally committed to reaching the lost and helping those who need help, locally and globally.

  

  Joel Houston Hillsong United
  • God
  • Missing
  • Worship

• One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Power
  • Right
  • Taught

• I can't die now, I have so much work to do.

  

  John Gresham Machen
  • Work
  • Die

• 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