“Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.” FirstsOrderAwarenessCivilizationSuperstitions Author:Andre Malraux
“Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.” FeelsTryingFirstsArtFeelingsWishFeltForgetMereFormerRemoveWorks Of ArtStatuesSpectatorsHasteCrucifixionEgyptianGaugesLouvre Author:Andre Malraux
“In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.” FirstsArtEarthAccidentsHeirs Author:Andre Malraux
“The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.” MenFirstsLyingLying Men Book:ANTI-MEMOIRS Source: ANTI-MEMOIRS
“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.” InspirationalFirstsLeaderDutyPlaying Up Author:Andre Malraux
“In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.” WorldFirstsHas BeensStatesCoursesEnergyNationsUnitedPowerfulEffortUnited StatesGenerationsDegreesOrganizationHistoricalEmpiresMost PowerfulConquestExceptionalPremeditation Author:Andre Malraux
“The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.” FirstsSpiritualCenturyTwenties Author:Andre Malraux
