Paul Valery
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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
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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.
simple
Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless.
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.
time future trouble
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
dream silence triumph
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
being-yourself being-single men
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
betrayal kind fidelity
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
time thinking
At times I think and at times I am.
simple complicated understood
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
peace greed victory
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds
failure succeed transformation
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.
successful recipes collections
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
rights society moments
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
mistake believe errors
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.