Incomparable Quote by Paul Valery Download Open image “All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.” — Paul Valery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Incomparable Nations Past Reason Thinking
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
Every nation lives by its own intelligence, culture, skill and patience. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist... — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always… — Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — 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 Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I've visited the future and I've seen the Heavenly City standing upon this Earth!-Beautiful, gorgeous, incomparable, almost indescribable, the most gorgeous sight you'll ever… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Perhaps he's in love with Agatha," she said. "I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
“As deep as the ocean, My rewards for you; The more I give, the more I have; As clear as the summer sky, My… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay,… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The digital formats keep changing so rapidly. I feel like so many people are shooting digital but the quality is being lost. There's a… — Daryl Wein Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image