Andre Gide Mind Quotations

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.