Albert Caraco Quotes

French-Uruguayan philosopher

(8 July 1919 – 7 September 1971) was a French-Uruguayan philosopher, writer, essayist and poet of Turkish Jewish descent. He is best known for his two major works, Post Mortem (1968) and posthumously published Bréviaire du chaos (1982). He is often compared to the philosophers and writers such as Emil Cioran, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Nicolás Gómez Dávila and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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L’Âge d’Homme, Lausanne (1994), p. 50

Who are the most wicked of men? It's the optimists.

I was born to myself between 1946 and 1948, I then opened my eyes on the world, until that moment I have been blind.

Evil desires men to multiply, for the more men there are, the less they are worth. To be truly human, man will never be rare enough.

Imagine a world in which thirty billion humans would live like the people in Asia, cramped into a few cities the size of France, with hundred-story buildings containing a hundred thousand rooms, where water runs for only two hours a day. Most of them would be born, live, and die in ten-unit structures, breathing air supplied by machines and consuming rather unappetizing food made of algae, cellulose, or even insects. Is it any wonder that some feel the urge to destroy everything, if only to avoid a nightmare that has now become inevitable?

The older I grow, the more Gnosis speaks to my reason: the world is not ruled by a Providence, it's intrinsically evil and deeply absurd, and Creation is either the dream of blind intelligence or the game of a principle without a moral.

L’Âge d’Homme, Lausanne (1975), p. 92

L’Âge d’Homme, Lausanne (1985), p. 57

It's because life itself is inhuman that men are not human.

L’Âge d’Homme, Lausanne (1985), p. 247

L’Âge d’Homme, Lausanne (1975), p. 85

I would be pleased indeed, if the universe were full of blazing ovens, concentration camps, and people deported.

The fact that we suffer doesn't necessarily imply that pain is meaningful; quite the contrary! It's always pointless to endure pain, but our vanity refuses to admit it, and therefore builds castles in the air to amuse itself with illusions, which is also called metaphysics.

Pessimism has never been in fashion because no order could stand it; it's a luxury of the mind, and thus beyond the reach of the common man.

Le galant homme, L’Âge d’Homme, Lausanne (1967), p. 221