Quote of Albert Camus - The greatness of man lies in...

Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Quote

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.”
Albert Camus - Chroniques

Translation

(French, German)

La grandeur de l'homme est dans sa décision d'être plus fort que sa condition.”
Albert Camus - Chroniques

Die Größe des Menschen liegt in seiner Entscheidung, stärker zu sein als das, was ihn bestimmt.”
Albert Camus - Chroniques

Quotes about decision:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.”
Simone de Beauvoir

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”
Noam Chomsky

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel

Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the art of making decisions.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur

All about decision...

Quotes about man, all human beings:

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

Man is the future of man.”
Francis Ponge

No man is weak by choice.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.”
Publius Terentius Afer - Heautontimoroumenos

All about man, all human beings...

Quotes for: greatness:

All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.”
Voltaire

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston Churchill

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Leo Tolstoy

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
William Shakespeare

greatness

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”
Mahatma Gandhi

greatness

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Albert Camus also said...

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus - L'Été

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
Albert Camus - The Plague

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.”
Albert Camus

Absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.”
Albert Camus

I revolt, therefore I am.”
Albert Camus - L'Été

The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.”
Albert Camus - Carnets

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