Albert Camus Quotes About Greatness

• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

  Albert Camus

  Creativity, New Beginnings, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.12, Vintage

• Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Trying, Way

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

• There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Mean, Greatness

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.5, Vintage

• After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Pain, Lying

• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

  Albert Camus

  Fate, Greatness, Destiny

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

• Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Men, Liberty

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99

• For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Echoes, Humanity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage

• The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Greatness, Men

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