To see is to forget the name of the thin... by Paul Valery | We Heart Quotes

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To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

- Paul Valery

Other quotes by Paul Valery

Art People

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

- Paul Valery

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

- Paul Valery

There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

- Paul Valery

Thoughts Time

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

- Paul Valery

Thoughts Man

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

- Paul Valery

Disorder

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

- Paul Valery

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