Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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
Says
Hand
Reality
Hands
Wells
Well
Nothing
Touches
Feels
Touched
More quotes by Paul Valery
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
Paul Valery
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Paul Valery
What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
Paul Valery
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.
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
We are wont to condemn self-love but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
Paul Valery
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
Paul Valery
The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
Paul Valery
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
Paul Valery
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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
We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
Paul Valery
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
Paul Valery
Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.
Paul Valery