Quotes By Paul Valery

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.