Paul Valéry Quotes

The problem of our times is that the future is no longer what it used to be.

Taste is made of a thousand repulsions.

One must be light like the bird, and not like the feather.

Every man carries within himself a dictator and an anarchist.

A competent person is someone who makes mistakes according to the rules.

Politics is the art of preventing people from meddling in what concerns them.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

Works of art are not finished, they are abandoned.

Sometimes reason seems to me to be the faculty of our soul to not understand anything about our body.

Hope sustains us, but like on a taut rope.

In every discussion, it's not a thesis that is defended but oneself.

When we achieve our goal, we believe the path was good.