52 ordspråk av Paul Valéry
Paul Valéry
Paul Valéry föddes den October 30th 1871 och dog den 20 July 1945 - French writer
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 Power without abuse loses its charm |
| Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science. |
| Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. |
| Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. |
| That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. |
| That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. |
| The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. |
| The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. |
| The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. |
| The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds |
| The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best |
| The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best |
| The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. |
| The ultimate "computer," our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb. |
| The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect |
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Proverb (1469535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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