The history of thought may be summed up in these w... -Paul Valery

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Paul Valery , Poet
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Paul Valery Quotes to Explore

At times I think and at times I am....
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other....
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly....
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through....
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well....
A poem is never finished, only abandoned....
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone....
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false....
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business....
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds....

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We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with s...
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There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel tha...
I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet....
Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London...
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, s...
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were ...
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, unti...
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Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...