Paul Valery Quotes

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.

Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness.

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.

The human body is something that I truly love, above all else.

First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so complex, with so many parts...a system which is far more complex than we can fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a large and mysterious system is ludicrous.

Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble!

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon because it says everything about us as people. It's a subject we very quickly begin to argue about. I think that's so interesting.

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.