Quote

A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.

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
Firsts
Experiences
Inseparable
First
Birth
Phenomena
Giving
Emotion
Attached
Mind
Opinion
Opinions
Really
Help
Intimate
Free
Appear
Reacts
Helping
Affection
Affections
Cannot
Emotions
Scarcely

More quotes by Paul Valery

Image
At times I think and at times I am.
Paul Valery
Image
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
Paul Valery
Image
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
Paul Valery
Image
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
Paul Valery
Image
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
Paul Valery
Image
The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
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
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
Paul Valery
Image
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
Paul Valery
Image
The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted.There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.
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 dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
Paul Valery
Image
If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.
Paul Valery
Image
Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
Paul Valery
Image
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
Paul Valery
Image
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
Paul Valery
Image
What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
Paul Valery
Image
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
Paul Valery