Quote of Paul Valéry - The history of thought may be...
Biography - Paul Valéry:
French poet, essayist and philosopher.
Born: 1871 - Died: 1945
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1871 - Died: 1945
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
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Quotes about thought:
Quotes about history:
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Quotes for: absurd
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
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