385 Quotes by Andre Gide

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.