Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. — Paul Valery Every moment Copy Share Image
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms. — Paul Valery Art Copy Share Image
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they… — Paul Valery Art Copy Share Image
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. — Paul Valery Body Copy Share Image
One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. — Paul Valery Ideas Copy Share Image
The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value,… — Paul Valery Facts Copy Share Image
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no… — Paul Valery Ideas Copy Share Image
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of… — Paul Valery Discovery Copy Share Image
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. — Paul Valery Attitude Copy Share Image
If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of… — Paul Valery Art 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
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
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in… — Paul Valery Art Copy Share Image
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes… — Paul Valery Banking system Copy Share Image
Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are… — Paul Valery Bears Copy Share Image
“There are pigeonholes in the brain with labels on them such as: To be looked into when I feel like it; Never… — Paul Valéry Happiness Copy Share Image
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of… — Paul Valery Anger Copy Share Image
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