Paul Valery Quotes

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

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

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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.

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

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

Love is being stupid together.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

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

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