War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – 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
Power without abuse loses its charm. – Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery
History is the science of things which are not repeated. – Paul Valery
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
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. – 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
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery
Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery
