Paul Valery Professions : Poet Born : October 30, 1871 Died : July 20, 1945 Browse All Authors Top 163 quotes by Paul Valery The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery motivational positive inspirational 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 Valery poetry war people There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: Paul Valery together men two History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. Paul Valery dream memories people An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants. Paul Valery intelligent stupid want Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences. Paul Valery mutual differences inspirational Nothing beautiful can be summarized. Paul Valery beautiful beauty An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next. Paul Valery growing mind attitude A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Paul Valery lost-friendship loss men Sometimes I think, sometimes I am . Paul Valery sometimes thinking If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. Paul Valery hateful ego love-you The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery future trouble time What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood. Paul Valery understood simple complicated A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun. Paul Valery light mindfulness sun We hope vaguely but dread precisely. Paul Valery dread Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. Paul Valery serious people ideas To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth. Paul Valery teeth mind needs Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Paul Valery business people art 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, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo. Paul Valery ignorance education men [Beauty is] that which makes us despair. Paul Valery despair Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
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