Quotes by : Paul Valery

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what....

Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.

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

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a....

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but....

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

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

Love is being stupid together.

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

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