Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing. — Paul Valery Doing nothing Copy Share Image
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. — Paul Valery Ego Copy Share Image
“Admirable man, who know teeth by dreams, think you that all those of philosophers are decayed?” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. — Paul Valery Books Copy Share Image
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing. — Paul Valery Beginning Copy Share Image
“A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.” — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their… — Paul Valery Attitude Copy Share Image
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession of notes that emanate from the inner voice.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention... She… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams… — Paul Valery Arrogant Copy Share 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… — Paul Valery Hate Copy Share Image
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.” — Paul Valéry Language Copy Share Image
“How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague?” — Paul Valéry Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves. — Paul Valery 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
My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself! — Paul Valery Dream Copy Share Image
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives. — Paul Valery 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
What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause? — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery Art Copy Share Image
