Best Paul Valery Sayings
- We must always apologize for talking painting. Always Apologize
- My poems mean what people take them to mean. Inspirational
- What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will. Bear
- Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.… All
- We civilizations now know ourselves mortal. Civilization
- Stupidity is not my strong suit. Inspirational
- In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and this… Abandoned
- Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any… Active
- The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man… Art
- If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. Crush
- The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance,… Able
- A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first… Affection
- Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals… Accomplished
- 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… Days
- The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary… All
- Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception,… Activity
- Love is being stupid together. Love
- 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. Antiwar
- An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. Abandon
- A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Gone
- God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Drinking
- A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Abandoned
- The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Future
- Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. Attitude
- A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. Keeping Secrets
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