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
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. – Salman Rushdie