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. – Paul Valéry
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
Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery
Politeness is organized indifference. – Paul Valéry
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. – Paul Valery
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph. – Paul Valéry
At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body, the mind. – Paul Valery
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. – Paul Valery
But hope is only man’s mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind. – Paul Valery
History is the science of what never happens twice. – Paul Valery
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather. – 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. – Paul Valéry
A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun. – Paul Valéry
I know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right. – Paul Valery
Nothing beautiful can be summarized. – Paul Valéry
We hope vaguely but dread precisely. – Paul Valéry
Stupidity is not my strong point. – Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery
My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself! – Paul Valery
Sometimes I think and other times I am. -Paul Valery
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