Quote

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Paul Valery

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Simple
Useless
False
Honesty

More quotes by Paul Valery

Image
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
Paul Valery
Image
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
Image
Stupidity is not my strong suit.
Paul Valery
Image
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
Image
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
Paul Valery
Image
Cognition reigns but does not rule.
Paul Valery
Image
At times I think and at times I am.
Paul Valery
Image
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
Paul Valery
Image
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
Image
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
Paul Valery
Image
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
Paul Valery
Image
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Paul Valery
Image
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
Paul Valery
Image
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
Paul Valery
Image
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
Paul Valery
Image
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
Image
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
Paul Valery
Image
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Paul Valery
Image
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Paul Valery
Image
The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
Paul Valery