Quotes by : Paul Valery

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper....

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....

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

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

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

At times I think and at times I am.

Love is being stupid together.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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