Paul Valery

Showing quotations 1 to 11 of 11 total A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. Paul ValeryA poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul ValeryGod made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. Paul ValeryThat which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Paul ValeryThe trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. Paul ValeryThe 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, 1895Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)

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