Paul Valery Quotes


A businessman is a hybrid between a dancer and a calculator. Paul Valery Business 222
Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery Love 102
A man in infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. Paul Valery Thought 89
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. Paul Valery Constantly 89
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary. Paul Valery Soul 87
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. Paul Valery Future 85
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery dreams 83
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. Paul Valery Poetry 81
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 oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. Paul Valery Science 81
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 thoughts. Paul Valery Destroys 79
Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery Love 78
Power without abuse loses its charm. Paul Valery Power 75
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. Paul Valery Businessman 75
Man is only man at the surface. Remove his skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. Paul Valery Technology 74
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. Paul Valery Art 72
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity. Paul Valery Knowledge 72
History is the science of what never happens twice. Paul Valery History 69
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 History 67
Politeness is organized indifference. Paul Valery Uncategorized 66
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up. Paul Valery Failure 64
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. Paul Valery Opinions 59
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Paul Valery Uncategorized 57
All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable. Paul Valery Nation 57
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. Paul Valery Uncategorized 55
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go. Paul Valery Mind 54
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 ideas. Paul Valery Art 54
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. Paul Valery Uncategorized 53
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Paul Valery God 51
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. Paul Valery Trouble 50
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery Poetry 50
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Paul Valery Uncategorized 48
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. Paul Valery Uncategorized 43
History is the science of things which are not repeated. Paul Valery Science 43
At times I think and at times I am. Paul Valery Think 42
The only way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery Dream 41
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery Religion 40
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery 38
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery Future 36
A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. Paul Valery Uncategorized 34
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. Paul Valery Uncategorized 34
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Paul Valery art 34
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. Paul Valery Science 31
Poems are never finished - just abandoned Paul Valery Poem 27
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. Paul Valery Impeccable 25

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