Quotes by : Paul Valery

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

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

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....

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.....

At times I think and at times I am.

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

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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