Albert Camus Logic Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.