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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
By 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.
By Paul Valery
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
By Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
By Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
By Paul Valéry
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
By Paul Valery
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
By Paul Valery
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
By Paul Valery
La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
By Paul Valery
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
By Paul Valery
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
By Paul Valery
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
By Paul Valery
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.
By Paul Valery
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
By Paul Valery
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
By Paul Valery
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
By Paul Valery