André Gide: Quotes about people

André Gide was French novelist and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”

André Gide book The Immoralist

Source: The Immoralist

“In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring…”

“When people felt they had a right to seek out Christ before the torment, and in the fullness of his joy—it was too late; the cross had overcome Christ himself; it was Christ crucified that people continued to see and teach. And thus it is that religion came to plunge the world into gloom.”

Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)

“When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.”

“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 346
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)

“The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they’re seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?”

André Gide book The Immoralist

Source: The Immoralist (1902), p. 159

“Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.”

“Characters,” p. 304
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)

“Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.”

“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 311
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)