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Him Quotes by Paul Valery
- Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature…
- In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for…
- God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
- A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of…
- Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of…
- His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi