Paul Valery
Paul Valery
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valérywas a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction, his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 October 1871
CountryFrance
people evil insulting
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
love heart self
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
death needs satisfaction
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
giving effort everyday
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.
men miracle mind
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
simple hands water
Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
giving example want
History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.
vocabulary mind action
A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.
courage long wake-up
We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
men ideas mind
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
wind rising
The wind is rising...we must attempt to live.
thinking sometimes thoughts-and-thinking
Sometimes I think and other times I am.
reign doe conscience
Conscience reigns but it does not govern.
psychics ironic empowerment
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.