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
art men ideas
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
spiritual art ideas
Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.
art ideas poetry
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
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.
ideas giving psychology
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
men ideas doing-nothing
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
ideas people serious
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
simple
Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless.
deeply moment others
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
future
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
people
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
god shows void
God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through
consumed energy power ten ultimate uses
The ultimate ""computer,"" our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.
civilization knows mortals
We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.