385 Quotes by Andre Gide

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

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.

When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

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 other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady ; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.