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
indifference politeness organized
Politeness is organized indifference.
differences reciprocate
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
block men want
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
positive beginnings-and-ends things-change
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
giving mind firsts
A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.
mistake believe errors
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
mean views point-of-view
To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.
teeth penetrate
To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.
love-you ego hateful
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
men ideas doing-nothing
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
peace greed victory
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds
loneliness women solitude
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
science profound structure
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
time thinking
At times I think and at times I am.