Paul Valery Quotes

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

Paul Valery

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Paul Valery

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

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

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.

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.

Paul Valery

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery