Paul Valery Quotes

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

I think people have a lot of layers. I know I do in particular.

I think that our personalities and our souls have so much - we're so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.

You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and furbelows of a human psyche is fascinating.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

The surface is all you get of me.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.