Author: Paul Valery

Quotes

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

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

- Paul Valery

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

- Paul Valery

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

- 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

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

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

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

- Paul Valery

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Paul Valery

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