Quotes By Paul Valery

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.

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

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

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.