Paul Valery Quotes

French - Poet October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945

At times I think and at times I am.

I Am Think Brainy I Think Am

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

Dreams Best Your Dreams True

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

Man Great Loss Great Man

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

Man Mind Key Sound

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Poetry Never Only Abandoned Poem

Love is being stupid together.

Love Together Love Is Stupid

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

Alone God Man Solitude

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

People Serious Ideas Never

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Universe Present Plan Our

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

Work Art Artist Never He

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Paul Valery
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Power without abuse loses its charm.

Power Without Abuse Charm

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

Best Purpose Know Things

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 People Know Profit

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

Businessman Hybrid Calculator Dancer

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.

Art Man Ideas Difficulties

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

Future Time Trouble Our

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.

Spring Science Discovery Us

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

God Religion Nothing Everything

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Man Great Thought Mask

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

World Two Order Threaten

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

Politics Business Art People

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

Science Rest Literature Always

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Thoughts Man Complicated More

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Chance Always Everyone False

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

Differences Our Reciprocate Enriched

Politeness is organized indifference.

Politeness Indifference Organized

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