Paul Valery Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Memories, People

• I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

  Paul Valery

  Order, History, Study

• History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

  Paul Valery

  History, Example, Chemistry

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