A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
- Paul Valery Quote

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 Quote

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
- Paul Valery Quote

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery Quote

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
- Paul Valery Quote

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
- Paul Valery Quote

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- Paul Valery Quote

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
- Paul Valery Quote

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
- Paul Valery Quote

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

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
- Paul Valery Quote

Politeness is organized indifference.
- Paul Valery Quote

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
- Paul Valery Quote

Power without abuse loses its charm.
- Paul Valery Quote

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
- Paul Valery Quote

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
- Paul Valery Quote

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
- Paul Valery Quote

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
- Paul Valery Quote

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- Paul Valery Quote

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
- Paul Valery Quote

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery Quote

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
- Paul Valery Quote

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
- Paul Valery Quote

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 Valery Quote