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Paul Valery quotes about mind

French Poet October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945

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All 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... Paul Valery
I believed, rather more accurately, that a work resolutely thought out and sought for in the hazards of the mind, systematically, and through a determined analysis of definite and previously prescribed conditions, whatever its value might be once it had been produced, did not leave the mind of its creator without having modified him, and forced him to recognize and in some way reorganize himself. I said to myself that it was not the accomplished work, and its appearance and effect in the... Paul Valery
What a pity to see a mind as great as Napoleon's devoted to trivial things such as empires, historic events, the thundering of cannons and of men; he believed in glory, in posterity, in Caesar; nations in turmoil and other trifles absorbed all his attention...How could he fail to see that what really mattered was something else entirely? Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth."
To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth. Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body,..."
At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body, the mind. Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman..."
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman..."
A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key. Paul Valery

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