Quote

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

Andre Gide

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Greatest
Firsts
First
Must
Men
Gods
Victory

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
Andre Gide
Image
How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
Andre Gide
Image
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
Andre Gide
Image
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
Image
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
Image
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
Andre Gide
Image
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
Andre Gide
Image
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
Andre Gide
Image
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 persons, and of oneself.
Andre Gide
Image
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Andre Gide
Image
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
Andre Gide
Image
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
Andre Gide
Image
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
Andre Gide
Image
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide
Image
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Andre Gide
Image
If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
Andre Gide
Image
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
Image
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
Andre Gide
Image
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
Andre Gide
Image
When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
Andre Gide