Andre Malraux

man think hide

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

― André Malraux (1901-1976)

man miserable pile secret

“What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”

― André Malraux (1901-1976)

successful idea risk act

“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.”

― André Malraux (1901-1976)

religious century

"Le vingt et un siècle sera religieux ou ne sera pas’"

(The twenty-first century will be religious or it will not)

—André Malrau (1901-1976)

fifty ways fight one win war revolution

"There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases."

—Andre Malraux (1901-1976)

command serve

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

—Andre Malraux (1901-1976)

youth religion converted

“Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted”

—Andre Malraux (1901-1976)

age brutal transmit music

“Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only”

—Andre Malraux (1901-1976)