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Paul Valery [1871-1945] French

Rank: 101
Poet

Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction, his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.

Poetry, Art, Attitude, Best, Brainy, Chance, Dreams, Future, Great, Love, Politics, Religion, Science, Time, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.	Great	101
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.	Best, Dreams	102
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.		103
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.	Attitude	104
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.	Future	105
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.	Art	106
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.	Poetry	107
At times I think and at times I am.	Brainy	108
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.		109
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.		110
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.		111
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.	War	112
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.		113
Love is being stupid together.	Love	114
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.		115
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.		116
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.		117
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.	Religion	118
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.		119
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.	Poetry	120
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.	Politics	121
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.	Science	122
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.		123
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.		124
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.		125
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.		126
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.		201
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.		202
Power without abuse loses its charm.		203
Politeness is organized indifference.		204
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.		205
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.		206
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.	Chance	207
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.		208
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.		209
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.	Time	210
History is the science of things which are not repeated.		211

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