Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
Paul ValéryGod made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
Paul ValéryPoliteness is organized indifference.
Paul ValéryTags: life politeness indifference
Entrer chez les gens pour déconcerter leurs idées, leur faire la surprise d'être surpris de ce qu'ils font, de ce qu'ils pensent, et qu'ils n'ont jamais conçu différent, c'est, au moyen de l'ingénuité feinte ou réelle, donner à ressentir toute la relativité d'une civilisation, d'une confiance habituelle dans l'ordre établi.
Paul ValéryTags: cultures ingenuite ordre ordre-etabli relativite
Patience, patience.
Patience dans l'azur
chaque atome de silence
est la chance d'un fruit mûr !
To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.
Paul ValéryI know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right.
Paul ValéryAll our language is composed of brief little dreams; and the wonderful thing is that we sometimes make of them strangely accurate and marvelously reasonable thoughts. What should we be without the help of that which does not exist? Very little. And our unoccupied minds would languish if fables, mistaken notions, abstractions, beliefs, and monsters, hypotheses, and the so-called problems of metaphysics did not people with beings and objectless images our natural depths and darkness. Myths are the souls of our actions and our loves. We cannot act without moving towards a phantom. We can love only what we create.
Paul ValéryWhat is more important than the meal? Doesn’t the least observant man-about-town look upon the implementation and ritual progress of a meal as a liturgical prescription? Isn’t all of civilization apparent in these careful preparations, which consecrate the spirit’s triumph over a raging appetite?
Paul ValéryCognition reigns but does not rule.
Paul ValéryTags: cognition
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