Paul Claudel famous quotes

03-23-2025

Intelligence is nothing without delight.
-- Paul Claudel

#Delight
Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!
-- Paul Claudel

#People #Speak #Christ
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
-- Paul Claudel

#Men #Imagination #Trying
We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
-- Paul Claudel

#Conflict
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.
-- Paul Claudel

#Long #Politics #Diplomats
Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?
-- Paul Claudel

#Thinking #Doctors #Sausage
Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.
-- Paul Claudel

#Jesus #Suffering
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.
-- Paul Claudel

#Wine #Glasses #Gentleman
While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.
-- Paul Claudel

#Lying #Maturity #Giving
Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
-- Paul Claudel

#Numbers #People #Convince
The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.
-- Paul Claudel

#Christian #Children #Wine
Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.
-- Paul Claudel

#Eye #Years #Wind
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
-- Paul Claudel

#Expression #Dignity #Parables
Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.
-- Paul Claudel

#Art #Causes #Process
The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.
-- Paul Claudel

#Everyday #Magic #Phrases
The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.
-- Paul Claudel

#Injustice #Animated #Inequality
How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods
-- Paul Claudel

#Feet #Alive #Breathe
You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
-- Paul Claudel

#Thanks #Poet

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