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One Quotes by Paul Valery
- To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it…
- A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or…
- A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the…
- There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
- Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others,…
- In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.
- Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men…
- An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
- To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.
- The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary…
- A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
- A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
- Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that…
- One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
- To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
- What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
- 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…
- One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.
- It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle