Who was it that said, "It's better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you aren't?"

Question

I've been discussing the quote with someone (I may not have it exactly right), but I would swear it was originally a philosopher that said that. I know it wasn't Kurt Cobain like some people have been saying, but no one wants to listen to that. Does anyone out there know who it was?

Answer 1

"It is better to be hated for what you are
than to be loved for what you are not."

by: Andre Gide
(1869-1951) French writer

Some of the things he was noted for:

n 1923 he published a book on Fyodor Dostoyevsky; however, when he defended homosexuality in the public edition of Corydon (1924) he received widespread condemnation. He later considered this his most important work.
After 1925 he began to demand more humane conditions for criminals. From 1925-26 he was a special envoy for the colonial ministry. In 1926 he published an autobiography, Si le grain ne meurt and journeyed to the Congo with his friend Marc Allegret. They returned 1927. In his report he criticized the behavior of French business interests in the Congo and inspired reform.

During the 1930s he briefly became a communist, but became disillusioned after his visit to Soviet Union. His criticism of communism caused him to lose many of his socialist friends, especially when he made a clean break with it in Retour de L'U.S.S. in 1936.

Gide left France for Africa in 1942 and lived there until the end of the World War Two. In 1947, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Answer 2

Andre Gide - French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for literature, 1869-1951

Answer 3

Country music band Van Zandt

Answer 4

I don't know who said it originally but from now on I'm going to.

Answer 5

Oh Gide.

I was going to say Trump.

Answer 6

no, but it is a great quote