Quotes by : Paul Valéry

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

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think....

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing....

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

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise,....

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that....

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.