Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself! — Paul Valery Dream Copy Share Image
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?” — Paul Valéry Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. — Paul Valery Companion Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another. — Paul Valery Affection Copy Share Image
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing. — Paul Valery Beginning Copy Share Image
Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that… — Paul Valery Beautiful Copy Share Image
“You have made yourself an island of time, you are a time that has become detached from that vast Time in which… — Paul Valéry Eternity Copy Share Image
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully. — Paul Valery Passion Copy Share Image
“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“By giving the name of progress to its own tendency to a fatal precision, the world is seeking to add to the… — Paul Valéry Death Copy Share Image
“But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something?... Can he ever remain solitary with himself -- and silent to his very… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“I think of the presence and of the habits of mortals in this so fluid stream, and reflect that I was among… — Paul Valéry Death Copy Share Image
“You are in love with intelligence, until it frightens you. For your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art… — Paul Valery Art Copy Share Image
“For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends… — Paul Valéry Creative process Copy Share Image
“What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering… — Paul Valéry Napoleon Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and… — Paul Valery Bartering Copy Share Image
