Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions. Paul Valery More Quotes by Paul Valery More Quotes From Paul Valery The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness. Paul Valery freshnessadvantageloses 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 Valery doewritingbeautiful If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear. Paul Valery disappearpoetryart Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing. Paul Valery doing-nothingmenideas Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. Paul Valery blockwantmen Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery fireanimalbook Politeness is organized indifference. Paul Valery politenessindifferenceorganized The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect. Paul Valery atheistdogmen To hit someone means to adopt his point of view. Paul Valery point-of-viewviewsmean A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery wittyinspirationallife It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. Paul Valery distanceloverelationship The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies. Paul Valery destinymenart To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees. Paul Valery visionphotographynames Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery valentines-dayloveromantic A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones. Paul Valery realfacts The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors. Paul Valery judgingjusticeattitude A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. Paul Valery keeping-secretsmenreality God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Paul Valery womensolitudeloneliness All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable. Paul Valery reasonpastthinking If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. Paul Valery crushstrongweak
