Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Andre Gide
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Translator
Travel Writer
Writer
Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Literature
Condition
Use
Except
Work
Unless
Good
Conditions
Beyond
Theory
Rest
Permits
Greatest
Permit
More quotes by Andre Gide
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Andre Gide
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
Andre Gide
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Andre Gide
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide
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 the conclusion in his own way.
Andre Gide
Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
Andre Gide
The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
Andre Gide
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
Andre Gide
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
Andre Gide
Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
Andre Gide
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
Andre Gide
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
Andre Gide
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
Andre Gide
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Andre Gide
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
Andre Gide
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide
Sadness is a state of sin.
Andre Gide
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre Gide
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
