Quotes By Paul Valery

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

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

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

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.