Paul Valery Quotes

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

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

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

Best, Dreams, Your Dreams, Wake Up, True

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

Great, Man, Loss, Great Man, Others, Who

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

Businessman, Calculator, Hybrid, Dancer

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

Man, Mind, Key, Sound, Lock, Inner

Politeness is organized indifference. Paul Valery

Politeness, Organized, Indifference

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

Ideas, People, Serious, Never, Few

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

Universe, Plan, Present, Structure, Our

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

God, Religion, Nothing, Everything, Out

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery

Poetry, Never, Abandoned, Only, Poem

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, Discovery, Us, Paradox

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

Man, Alone, God, Solitude, Finding, Feel

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

Future, Time, Trouble, Used, Our, Times

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

I Am, Think, Brainy, I Think, Am, Times

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Paul Valery

Everyone, Always, False, Been, Almost

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, People, Know, Profit, Who, Other

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. Paul Valery

Great, Man, Mask, Thought, Kind, He

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

World, Two, Order, Threaten, Disorder

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

Man, Art, Ideas, Difficulties, Him, Poet

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

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

Work, Art, Artist, Never, He, Really

Power without abuse loses its charm. Paul Valery

Power, Without, Abuse, Charm, Loses

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

Man, Secrets, True, Others, More, Secret

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. Paul Valery

Long, Become, Years, Pass, Made, Before

Love is being stupid together. - Paul Valery

Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery

Love, Together, Love Is, Stupid, Being

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. Paul Valery

Differences, Our, Reciprocate, Enriched

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

Man, Thoughts, Complicated, More, Than

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

History, Science, Things, Which

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