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My poems mean what people take them to mean (Paul Valery Quotes)
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content (Paul Valery Quotes)
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false (Paul Valery Quotes)
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds (Paul Valery Quotes)
My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more (Paul Valery Quotes)
My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself! (Paul Valery Quotes)
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so (Paul Valery Quotes)
If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order (Paul Valery Quotes)
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be (Paul Valery Quotes)
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key (Paul Valery Quotes)
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 (Paul Valery Quotes)
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly (Paul Valery Quotes)
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows (Paul Valery Quotes)
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business (Paul Valery Quotes)
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature (Paul Valery Quotes)
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 (Paul Valery Quotes)
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds (Paul Valery Quotes)
God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely (Paul Valery Quotes)
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them (Paul Valery Quotes)
It must be admitted that liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations (Paul Valery Quotes)
Mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go (Paul Valery Quotes)
The object of psychology is to give us a totally different idea of the things we know best (Paul Valery Quotes)
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations (Paul Valery Quotes)
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift (Paul Valery Quotes)
A man’s true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others (Paul Valery Quotes)
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 (Paul Valery Quotes)
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 (Paul Valery Quotes)
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh (Paul Valery Quotes)
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best (Paul Valery Quotes)
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false (Paul Valery Quotes)