Paul Valéry Quotes
Paul Valéry Quotes
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
2562Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
3888 What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
3728 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.
3728 Une philosophie doit etre portative.
1122 Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.
1240 God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
4028 God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly
4001 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.
4382 Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
2137 Science is a collection of successful recipes.
4906 Les livres ont les mêmes ennemis que l'homme : le feu, l'humide, les bêtes, le temps, et leur propre contenu.
3193 Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.
2734 The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
1516 The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
2437 For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not know, and because we do not know it, than what we know.
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