Everything has not been lost, but everything has sensed that it might perish.
Paul ValéryTags: the-crisis-of-the-mind
By giving the name of progress to its own tendency to a fatal precision, the world is seeking to add to the benefits of life the advantages of death.
Paul ValéryTags: the-crisis-of-the-mind
My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!
Paul ValéryTags: danse-and-the-soul
But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something?... Can he ever remain solitary with himself -- and silent to his very soul!
Paul ValéryTags: danse-and-the-soul
Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.
Paul ValéryTags: danse-and-the-soul
Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in what is not a relief from what is. Now the real, now illusion is our refuge; and the soul has finally no other resource but the true, which is her weapon -- and falsehood, which is her armor.
Paul ValéryTags: danse-and-the-soul
Admirable man, who know teeth by dreams, think you that all those of philosophers are decayed?
Paul ValéryTags: danse-and-the-soul
She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention... She feels in herself that she is becoming some event.
Paul ValéryTags: danse-and-the-soul
O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is All cannot be sufficient unto itself!
Paul ValéryTags: danse-and-the-soul
I think of the presence and of the habits of mortals in this so fluid stream, and reflect that I was among them, striving to see all things just as I see them at this very moment. I then placed Wisdom in the eternal station which now is ours. But from here all is unrecognizable. Truth is before us, and we no longer understand anything at all.
Paul ValéryTags: eupalinos
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