Albert Camus Greatness Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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