"What is simple is false and what is…" — Paul Valery
"What is simple is false and what is not is useless."
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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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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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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 False Quotes
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
— Saint Augustine
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in…
— Sai Baba
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
— Russell Baker
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never…
— Stanley Baldwin
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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it…
— Alan Ball
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask…
— Roseanne Barr
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of…
— Saul Bellow
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It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and…
— John Belushi
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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