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
light bird should
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
inspirational differences mutual
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
chance belief has-beens
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
photography names vision
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
art abandon artist
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
mean sincerity sincere
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.
art abandoned art-is
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
mean moments
to live means to lack something at every moment
genius talent
Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.
happens
History is the science of what never happens twice.
fall science moon
One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.
failure succeed transformation
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.
successful recipes collections
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
ideas giving psychology
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.