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Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Writer
Cette
Paul Ambroise Valéry
Paul Ambroise Valery
Paul-Ambroise Valéry
Paul Valery
Paul-Ambroise Valery
Abandoned
Poems
Finished
Never
More quotes by Paul Valery
What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
Paul Valery
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.
Paul Valery
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
Paul Valery
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
Paul Valery
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Paul Valery
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Paul Valery
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
Paul Valery
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.
Paul Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valery
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Paul Valery
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
Paul Valery
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul Valery
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
Paul Valery
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.
Paul Valery
If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.
Paul Valery
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
Paul Valery
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
Paul Valery
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.
Paul Valery
The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted.There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.
Paul Valery
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Paul Valery