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

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

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

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

- 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

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

At times I think and at times I am.

At times I think and at times I am.

- 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

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

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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