3 December 2020 Paul Valery Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
3 December 2020 Paul Valery Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
3 December 2020 Paul Valery Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
3 December 2020 Paul Valery God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Paul Valery In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
