Paul Valery
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.Collection: Chance
History is the science of things which are not repeated.Collection: History
Love is being stupid together.Collection: Love
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.Collection: Attitude
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.Collection: Alone
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.Collection: Science
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.Collection: Great
At times I think and at times I am.Collection: Brainy
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Science
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.Collection: Work
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.Collection: Future
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.Collection: Art
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.Collection: War
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.Collection: Best
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.Collection: Poetry
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.Collection: Religion
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.Collection: Best
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.Collection: Poetry
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
Politeness is organized indifference.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
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.
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.
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.
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.Collection: Dream
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.Collection: Inspirational
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.Collection: Dream
Nothing beautiful can be summarized.Collection: Beauty
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.Collection: Important
Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.Collection: Inspirational
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.Collection: Photography
To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.Collection: Mind
An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.Collection: Stupid
Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .Collection: Thinking
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.Collection: Dread
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.Collection: Love