Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. – Aldous Huxley