All Andre Gide Quotes
- To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. Arduous
- The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation. Capable
- Sin is whatever obscures the soul. Inspirational
- It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing… Army
- But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. According
- It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.... Able
- Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of… Agnosticism
- An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets… Argument
- To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. Better
- Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness. Fatal
- Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it… Banality
- We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the… Admit
- The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself. Asserts
- Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination. Existence
- Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people. Everyone
- Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great. Achieve
- Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity. Atheism
- The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations. From
- Sadness is a state of sin. Inspirational
- In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of… Away Somewhat