Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Cognition reigns but does not rule.
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
Cognition
Reigns
Reign
Rule
Doe
More quotes by Paul Valery
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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
At times I think and at times I am.
Paul Valery
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
Paul Valery
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
Paul Valery
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
Paul Valery
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
Paul Valery
The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?
Paul Valery
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Paul Valery
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery
My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
Paul Valery
The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
Paul Valery
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
Paul Valery
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
Paul Valery
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valery