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
thinking
Sometime I think; and sometime I am.
thinking sometimes thoughts-and-thinking
Sometimes I think and other times I am.
time thinking
At times I think and at times I am.
thinking men complicated
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
thinking sometimes
Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .
past thinking reason
All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.
dream positive-thinking up-early
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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.