“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”
History
“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.”
AloneAll Quotes by Paul Valery
“In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.”
Poetry“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
Best“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.”
War“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.”
God“Love is being stupid together.”
Love“Power without abuse loses its charm.”
Power“History is the science of things which are not repeated.”
History“Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.”
Attitude“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
Poetry“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.”
Alone“The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.”
Future“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
Art“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
Future“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
Science“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.”
Art“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.”
Science