Best Paul Valery Quotations
- A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. Business
- The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. Best
- God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Alone
- Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Art
- A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. Complicated
- Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Animal
- Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. Constantly
- Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. Aggregate
- 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… Capital
- The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. Built
- A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of… Art
- A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. Inner
- History is the science of things which are not repeated. Funny
- Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. Flesh
- Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when… All
- Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. Funny
- Politeness is organized indifference. Indifference
- Power without abuse loses its charm. Abuse
- That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Accepted
- The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. Absurd
- To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected… Destroys
- Poems are never finished - just abandoned Abandoned
- to live means to lack something at every moment Every Moment
- Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that… Agree
- One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather. Bird
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