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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
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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.
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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.
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The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
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Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
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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.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.
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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.
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The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
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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.
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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