Paul Valéry Quotes

Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
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It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.
– Paul Valéry

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Love is being stupid together.
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Politeness is organized indifference.
– Paul Valéry

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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
– Paul Valéry

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At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body, the mind.
– Paul Valery

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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
– Paul Valery

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But hope is only man’s mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind.
– Paul Valery

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History is the science of what never happens twice.
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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
– Paul Valery

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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.
– Paul Valéry

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A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.
– Paul Valéry

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I know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right.
– Paul Valery

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Nothing beautiful can be summarized.
– Paul Valéry

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We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
– Paul Valéry

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Stupidity is not my strong point.
– Paul Valery

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
– Paul Valery

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My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!
– Paul Valery

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Sometimes I think and other times I am.
-Paul Valery

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