“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.”
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Paul Valéry 89
French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871–1945Related quotes
“There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty.”
Act III, scene 5.
The Elder Brother (c. 1625; published 1637)
“You will be free of the world's turbulence as soon as you stop taking your thoughts so seriously.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980), p. 73 - Book one: The winds of change - Cutting free
“You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.”
Man geht immer die gleichen Wege des Denkens wie vorher. Nur scheinen sie mit Rosen bestreut.
"Main features of my first impression of hashish" (18 December 1927), On Hashish (2006), p. 22
Main features of my first impression of hashish (1927)
“The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thought.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Source: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: What can a human being do — what can you and I do — to create a completely different society? We are asking ourselves a very serious question. Is there anything to be done at all? What can we do? Will somebody tell us? People have told us. The so-called spiritual leaders, who are supposed to understand these things better than we do, have told us by trying to twist and mould us into a new pattern, and that hasn't led us very far; sophisticated and learned men have told us and that has led us no further. We have been told that all paths lead to truth — you have your path as a Hindu and someone else has his path as a Christian and another as a Muslim, and they all meet at the same door — which is, when you look at it, so obviously absurd. Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living. A dead thing has a path to it because it is static, but when you see that truth is something living, moving, which has no resting place, which is in no temple, mosque or church, which no religion, no teacher, no philosopher, nobody can lead you to — then you will also see that this living thing is what you actually are — your anger, your brutality, your violence, your despair, the agony and sorrow you live in. In the understanding of all this is the truth, and you can understand it only if you know how to look at those things in your life. And you cannot look through an ideology, through a screen of words, through hopes and fears.
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)
7 September 1854 (p. 252)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)