Paul Valery Quotes about Giving

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The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

Paul Valery

Giving, Balance, World

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Paul Valery

Giving, Example, Want

Regards sur le Monde Actuel (1931)

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Paul Valery

Ideas, Giving, Psychology

"Tel Quel". Book by Paul Valery, 1943.

You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.

Paul Valery

Giving, Effort, Everyday

A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.

Paul Valery

Giving, Mind, Firsts

"Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 55), 1931.

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

Paul Valery

Sorry, Men, Giving