Author: Paul Valery

Quotes

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

- 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

Love is being stupid together.

Love is being stupid together.

- 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

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

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

- Paul Valery

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

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

At times I think and at times I am.

At times I think and at times I am.

- 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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