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Dialogues QUOTES

Dialogues QUOTES

1 " My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself! "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

2 " What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself? "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

3 " Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in what is not a relief from what is. Now the real, now illusion is our refuge; and the soul has finally no other resource but the true, which is her weapon -- and falsehood, which is her armor. "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

4 " She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention... She feels in herself that she is becoming some event. "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

5 " I think of the presence and of the habits of mortals in this so fluid stream, and reflect that I was among them, striving to see all things just as I see them at this very moment. I then placed Wisdom in the eternal station which now is ours. But from here all is unrecognizable. Truth is before us, and we no longer understand anything at all. "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

6 " This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind. "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

7 " O thoughtful waste of my days! What an artist I have destroyed! "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

8 " O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is All cannot be sufficient unto itself! "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

9 " I would hear the song of the columns and visualize in the pure sky the monument of a melody. "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

10 " Admirable man, who know teeth by dreams, think you that all those of philosophers are decayed? "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

11 " An alone man is always badly accompanied. "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

12 " But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something?... Can he ever remain solitary with himself -- and silent to his very soul! "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues

13 " Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself. "

― Paul Valéry , Dialogues