Paul Valery
Paul Valery
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valérywas a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction, his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 October 1871
CountryFrance
simple
Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless.
consumed energy power ten ultimate uses
The ultimate ""computer,"" our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.
deeply moment others
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
dream positive-thinking up-early
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
beauty beautiful
Nothing beautiful can be summarized.
dream memories people
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.
ideas people serious
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
loss men lost-friendship
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
relationship lying love-is
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
time future trouble
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
dread
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
book animal weather
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
love-you ego hateful
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
dream silence triumph
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.