Andre Malraux

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

— Andre Malraux

#man #thinks

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#beings #call #despise #force #hell

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#courting #duty #even #first #himself

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. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#bet #better #between #calculated #calculated risk

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#destiny #ends #faces #his #into

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#fertilize #genius #interpret #itself #much

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#knows #made #man #scale #were

An art book is a museum without walls. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#book #museum #walls #without

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#communism #democracy #destroy #destroys

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#nothing #one thing #only #opium #physical