| A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. Paul Valery Remarks |
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| A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. Paul Valery |
| A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery |
| Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery Adages |
| God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery Quotes |
| God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through Paul Valery Sayings |
| History is the science of things which are not repeated. Paul Valery |
| History is the science of what never happens twice. Paul Valery |
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| In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well Paul Valery Sayings |
| Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery |
| Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows Paul Valery Adages |
| Politeness is organized indifference Paul Valery |
| Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. Paul Valery Quotations |
| Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. Paul Valery |
| Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. Paul Valery |
| That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. Paul Valery Quotes |
| The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. 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. Paul Valery Quotations |
| The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best Paul Valery |
| The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery Adages |
| The ultimate "computer," our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb. Paul Valery |
| Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. Paul Valery Remarks |
| We are enriched by our reciprocate differences Paul Valery |
| We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves. Paul Valery |
