Andre Malraux Quotes

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?