35 Quotations by Paul Valery
- 21. Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
- 22. Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the at ...
- 23. Our most important thoughts are those which contradict our emotions.
- 24. Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their ...
- 25. Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are di ...
- 26. Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is li ...
- 27. Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
- 28. Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
- 29. That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
- 30. That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
- 31. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- 32. The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for ...
- 33. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- 34. To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone -- but tha ...
- 35. What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we th ...
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