4 Albert Camus Quotes on Limits

Albert Camus quotes on limits

52. Ironic philosophies produce passionate works. Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life.

98. C'est bien la le genie: l'intelligence qui connait ses frontieres.

173. Nature is still there, however. She contrasts her calm skies and her reasons with the madness of men. Until the atom too catches fire and history ends in the triumph of reason and the agony of the species. But the Greeks never said that the limit could not be overstepped. They said it existed and that whoever dared to exceed it was mercilessly struck down. Nothing in present history can contradict them.

201. The important thing, as Abbe Galiani said to Mme d'Epinay, is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments.