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Une philosophie doit etre portative.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Philosophy Portable

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Adam And Eve Aloneness God Man Solitude

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry God Life

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 all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Life Poetry

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Creativity Inspirational Writing

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Reading Writing

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Brain Consciousness Neuropsychology Neuroscience Phylosophy Science

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Conservatism Freedom Liberty

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Art Degas

For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not know, and because we do not know it, than what we know.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Creative Process Disorder Mind

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Darkness Life Truth

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Identity Self Concept

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Attack Thinker Thought

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 what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Incompleteness Transformation Weariness Work Writing

An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Art Artist

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Newspapers Journalism

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Self Self Knowledge

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Art Politics People

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Judge Nothing Weaknesses

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry People Know Profit

Love is being stupid together.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Together Love Is Stupid

At times I think and at times I am.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry I Am Think I Think

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Spring Discovery Paradox

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Successful Literature Rest

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry God Nothing Through

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Future Trouble Used

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Great Thought Words

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Man Loss Great Man

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Work Artist Never

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Never Abandoned Finished

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry God Man Solitude

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Everything Like Used
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