Paul Valery Quotes

Paul Valery Quotes

Paul Valery Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Paul Valery:

"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."

"Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery."

"That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false."

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."

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

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

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

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

"A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."