Paul Valery Quotes

Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

Love, Stupid, Together

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

Dreams, Best, True

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery

Art, Work, Artist

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery

Religion, God, Nothing

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery

Poetry, Finished, Abandoned

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

Great, After, Others

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Paul Valery

True, Others, Secret

At times I think and at times I am.
Paul Valery

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valery

Dancer, Hybrid, Calculator

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

Time, Future, Used

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

God, Alone, Him

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

Attitude, Judge, Nothing

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

War, Profit, Massacre

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

Politics, Art, Business

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery

Thoughts, Infinitely

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, Spring, Oneself

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery

Fire, Same, Weather

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul Valery

Best, Give, Different

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valery

Science, Successful, Means

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Paul Valery

Two, Order, Disorder

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
Paul Valery

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, Him, Ideas

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valery

Mind, Sound, Key

History is the science of things which are not repeated.
Paul Valery

History, Science, Repeated

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

Poetry, Everything, Impossible

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: October 30, 1871

Died: July 20, 1945

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