Author: Paul Valery

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Paul Valery

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

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

- Paul Valery

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

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

- Paul Valery

Love is being stupid together.

Love is being stupid together.

- Paul Valery

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.

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

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

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

- Paul Valery

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.

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

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

- Paul Valery

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