Paul Valery

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up…

Love is being stupid together…

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own…

A poem is never finished, only abandoned…

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

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make…

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by…

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be…

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the…

History is the science of things which are not repeated…

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the…

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to…

War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people…

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it…

Power without abuse loses its charm…