The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page.… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are… — André Gide Copy Share
I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very… — Andre Gide Copy Share
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself… — Andre Gide Copy Share
“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.” — André Gide Copy Share
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! — Andre Gide Copy Share
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. — Andre Gide Copy Share
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide Copy Share
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. — Andre Gide Copy Share
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed… — Andre Gide Copy Share
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.” — Andre Gide Copy Share
