Paul Valery quotes

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Love is being stupid together.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.