Paul Valery Quotes

• Politeness is organized indifference.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Politeness

• Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Mistake

• Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Judgment

• 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.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Misfortune, Man

• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Truth

• In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry And Poets, Impossible

• History is the science of things which are not repeated.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in History

  Tags in Science

• God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in God

  Tags in Feel, Feelings

• Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book And Reading, Enemies

• At times I think and at times I am.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Myself

• A man’s true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Man, Secret

• A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Thoughts And Thinking

• A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Man, Idea, Poetry And Poets

• A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great Man

• A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Business

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School

• God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in God, Religion

• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• History is the science of what never happens twice.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in History

• A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sanity

Paul Valery (43)

Birth:	30th October, 1871
Death:	20th July, 1945
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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