Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide Quotes
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands upon others.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say – because they were too obvious.
Everything in me calls out to be revised, amended, re-educated.
The belief that becomes truth for me – is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
That a germ of Michel (the immoralist) exists in me goes without saying. How many buds we bear in us… that will never blossom save in our books! They are ‘dormant eyes’ as the botanists call them. But if intentionally you suppress all of them “but one”, how it grows at once! How it enlarges, […]
The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
