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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.


Albert Camus

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ALBERT CAMUS Excepting for knowledge nothing has any meaning, and to have no meaning is to be nonexistence
RICHARD BURDON HALDANE God, if he exists, he has nothing in common with any kind of church.
MARIANA FULGER What would life be called if there were no humans created? Meaningless, right? Is it our survival th...
EPHDAN What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
WOODY ALLEN If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
GEORGES GUYNEMER It is extremely important to be able to make negative assertions. We must be able to say what is ‘...
HENRY CLOUD What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth...
E.B. WHITE Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i c...
MARIO PUZO This has nothing to do whatsoever with treatment of prisoners ... I'm not interested in any of that.
PORTER GOSS If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innoce...
LORD SALISBURY If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocen...
LORD SALISBURY When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any simi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The ...
D.J. MACHALE An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Plant ‘if’ and ‘when’ and you will grow ‘nothing’.
VIKRANT PARSAI There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed...
MAHATMA GANDHI There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed...
MAHATMA GANDHI If i am someone who has nothing, I will work hard and become someone who has everything.
NOMAN QAYYUM I not often like the begining of something it has it owns doubts, loses and failures. But the end is...
DEYTH BANGER We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusia...
GEORG HEGEL If you can learn how to add values to product and services, if you can learn how to work hard, there...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our to...
NEIL GAIMAN We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has a...
J.R. RIM If you can say nothing kind, then kindly say nothing.
SHELLY KAY WALDE We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible econo...
LESTER B. PEARSON If you risk nothing, then you risk everything
GEENA DAVIS If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
GEENA DAVIS What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my car...
WOODY ALLEN Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up...
PETER WASTHOLM First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimina...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimina...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If you seek nothing, you'll earn everything; but if you seek everything, you'll earn nothing.
MITEB KHANTASH ALQARNI Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in ...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF if there is an afterlife, then nothing here mattered, and if there isn't an afterlife, nothing here ...
JONATHAN TROPPER If a person gives nothing of what he has, either take nothing or take everything. If a person serves...
APURVA GAGLANI If everything belongs to everybody, then nothing belongs to nobody.
VIKRANT PARSAI Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Spirit does not belong to any particular religion because It has nothing to do with any religion and...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.
JOHN H. LIENHARD Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
ARNOLD BENNETT If nobodys perfect, then God must be nobody, if God is nobody, then God is nothing, if God is nothin...
LIVVY ANDERSON We believe that any immigrant — any immigrant — residing in this nation has a right — a right — ...
ALVARO CIFUENTES I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
TOM ROBBINS This guy has nothing to lose. He knows he has nothing to lose. If he's suspected in three murders, a...
KURT BYRD If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
UNKNOWN If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Doe...
DAVID HUME If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does...
DAVID HUME Nothing has meaning without love
SUNDAY ADELAJA Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
PHILIP PULLMAN Nothing can enslaved us, if we free in our minds.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We have to get better every day. If we can do that, if we can keep winning games and keep gaining co...
CHAD AMBUEHL If we're playing and competing at the level we want to and we know we can, then nothing else is ...
BROOKE SWEAT The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
CHARLES DARWIN We never comment on any rumors or speculation. Nothing has changed on this position,
JUERGEN SCHREMPP In order to bring me down.You have to be able to reach me first.
PRAVINEE HURBUNGS If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
IDI AMIN If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
IDI AMIN DADA I don't know, we may see them again, we may not see them again. If nothing else it has help to prepa...
GAIL GOESTENKORS Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permi...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If eve...
RICK YANCEY There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothi...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that...
FRANK SINATRA If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
BERKELEY BREATHED There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile m...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
PHILIP WYLIE If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve
PHILIP WYLIE It tell you: Nothing has been decided yet, ... If we fight for every vote, then I am sure, we will r...
GERHARD SCHROEDER I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for...
FRANK SINATRA Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Scie...
DEYTH BANGER If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything
YIDDISH PROVERB He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If someone says money is not everything, it means that he has either nothing or a lot of it.
VIKRANT PARSAI If everything is the same, nothing is special.
LADY STARLIGHT A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?
SHANNON CELEBI If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
HERMANN HESSE If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do
HERMANN HESSE I'm thinking, 'If he has a set, he has a set. Nothing I can do about it,'
DANIEL NEGREANU Have your own convictions. Believe in the laws of your conscience because if you believe in everythi...
RVM Communication is always a challenge in every district, ... Canton has a marvelous school district, a...
JAMES LEWIS We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we w...
RICHARD FLANAGAN Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's ...
DEAN KOONTZ Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Nothing can give you peace if there is no calmness in your mind.
DEBASISH MRIDHA In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I feel for those who have nothing, ... It has been hard for me to accept any (donations), because I ...
DAVID GOMEZ If your nationality is lost, nothing is lost – if your religion is lost, nothing is lost – if yo...
ABHIJIT NASKAR If we are wonderful parents and family members, then there’s really nothing else to prove.
RON BARATONO I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothi...
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some pe...
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ALBERT CAMUS You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
ALBERT CAMUS Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the right one for you. So just forge...
ALBERT CAMUS He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
ALBERT CAMUS How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spa...
ALBERT CAMUS What is a rebel? A man who says no
ALBERT CAMUS Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret
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