Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Never
Happy
Contrary
Natural
Harmony
Anything
Fruit
Agrees
Human
Agree
Misunderstanding
Humans
Except
Surprising
Nothing
Beings
Error
Believe
Among
Mutual
Always
Mistake
Errors
More quotes by Paul Valery
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.
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
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
Paul Valery
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
Paul Valery
Stupidity is not my strong suit.
Paul Valery
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
Paul Valery
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
Paul Valery
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
Paul Valery
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
Paul Valery
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
Paul Valery
What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
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