"The only truths which are universal are those……" — Paul Valery
"The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so."
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128 Quotes by Paul Valery
Paul Valery has 128 quotes on this site.
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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Sometimes I think and other times I am.
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At times I think and at times I am.
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone -…
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for,…
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Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your…
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The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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More Gross Quotes
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one of 338 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and…
— Madeleine Albright
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
— Fidel Castro
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
— Bennett Cerf
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
— Madonna Ciccone
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
— Pamela Anderson
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This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be…
— John Nelson Darby
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
— Samuel Johnson
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They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is…
— George Amos Dorsey
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than…
— Frederick Douglass
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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment…
— Francis Bacon
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Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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