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
Love is being stupid together.
— 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
Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable breeds.
— Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
— Paul Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
— Paul Valery
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
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
— 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
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
— Paul Valery
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