Paul Valery

24 quotes

"Love is being stupid together."

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

"History is the science of things which are not repeated."

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

"Power without abuse loses its charm."

Paul Valery

"History is the science of things which are not repeated."

Paul Valery

"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

"At times I think and at times I am."

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

"A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator."

Paul Valery

"Conscience reigns but it does not govern."

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"Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift."

Paul Valery

"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh."

Paul Valery

"Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds."

Paul Valery

"To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth."

Paul Valery