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Quote by Paul Valery
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absu

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

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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Poetry
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Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery

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Change
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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

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Science
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. – Anatole France

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History

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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History

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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History

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor

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History

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Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. – John Jewel

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The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. – George Sutherland

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