Quote

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.

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
Would
Men
Pet
Atheist
Dog
Perfect
Made

More quotes by Paul Valery

Image
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery
Image
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
Paul Valery
Image
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
Paul Valery
Image
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
Image
History is the science of what never happens twice.
Paul Valery
Image
Everything changes but the avant-garde.
Paul Valery
Image
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valery
Image
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
Image
Cognition reigns but does not rule.
Paul Valery
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
Paul Valery
Image
What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
Paul Valery
Image
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
Image
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
Paul Valery
Image
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
Paul Valery
Image
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
Image
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
Paul Valery
Image
to live means to lack something at every moment
Paul Valery
Image
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
Paul Valery