Quote

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

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
Make
Extremes
Acquires
World
Endure
Extremists
Balance
Endures
Value
Extremist
Values
Moderates
Give
Moderation
Giving
Stability
Great
Acquire

More quotes by Paul Valery

Image
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
Paul Valery
Image
Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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
History is the science of what never happens twice.
Paul Valery
Image
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
Paul Valery
Image
It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
Paul Valery
Image
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Paul Valery
Image
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
Paul Valery
Image
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
Paul Valery
Image
Cognition reigns but does not rule.
Paul Valery
Image
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
Paul Valery
Image
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
Paul Valery
Image
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
Image
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Paul Valery
Image
to live means to lack something at every moment
Paul Valery
Image
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
Paul Valery
Image
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
Paul Valery
Image
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
Paul Valery
Image
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valery
Image
The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
Paul Valery