To a man devoid of blinders, there is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that transcends it.
 Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). copy citation

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Author Albert Camus
Source The Myth of Sisyphus
Topic intelligence reality
Date 1942
Language English
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Note Translated by Justin O'Brien
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“It is, at the extreme limit of the condemned man’s last thought, that shoelace that despite everything he sees a few yards away, on the very brink of his dizzying fall. The contrary of suicide, in fact, is the man condemned to death. That revolt gives life its value. Spread out over the whole length of a life, it restores its majesty to that life. To a man devoid of blinders, there is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that transcends it. The sight of human pride is unequaled. No disparagement is of any use. That discipline that the mind imposes on itself, that will conjured up out of nothing, that face-to-face struggle have something exceptional about them.” source