“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
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Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011“to live means to lack something at every moment”
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
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Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
La guerre, c'est un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent, mais ne se massacrent pas.
Bizarre, issues 24-31 (1962), p. 102
This apocryphal quote from Paul Valéry is never precisely sourced: neither on the internet nor in the works we have consulted. See: https://www.guichetdusavoir.org/question/voir/52650
“Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.”
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) French poet
La géométrie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est à l'art de l'écrivain.
Les peintres cubistes (1913), reprinted in Oeuvres en prose complètes (Paris: Gallimard, 1991) vol. 2, p. 11; translation from Lionel Abel (trans.) The Cubist Painters (New York: Wittenborn, 1949) p. 13.
“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
“the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.”
John Marsden book Tomorrow, When the War Began
Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began
“A man without ambition is like a bird without wings”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/14/wings/
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
“It matters if you don't just give up.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Attributed in Going Within (1990) http://books.google.com/books?id=buVs1VVUZakC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA303#v=onepage&q&f=false by Shirley MacLaine, p. 303 <br class="br">Attributed
“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
