God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.Paul Valery
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.Paul Valery
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today,' we sigh.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
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
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
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.Paul Valery
