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Paul Valéry

Quote of Paul Valéry - Sometimes I think. Sometimes I am....


Biography - Paul Valéry:

French poet, essayist and philosopher.
Born: 1871 - Died: 1945
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Sometimes I think. Sometimes I am.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Parfois, je pense, et parfois je suis.

German
Manchmal denke ich, und manchmal bin ich.




See also 

See also...



I think, therefore I am.




Quotes for: to think


Quotes

Quotes for: to think


A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.





Men should strive to think much and know little.











Quotes for: to be


Quotes

Quotes for "to be" or about being:


The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





To be, or not to be, that is the question.





Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.





Become who you are!





I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.





Language is the house of the truth of Being.











Quotes

Paul Valéry also said...


One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.





Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.





Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.





The wind is rising!... We must try to live!





A very dangerous state of mind: thinking one understands.





The greatest liberty is born of the greatest rigor.












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