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Paul Valery
French critic & poet
| “ | A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. | ” |
| “ | A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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| “ | Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. | ” |
| “ | God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
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| “ | Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. | ” |
| “ | That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. | ” |
| “ | The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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| “ | What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. | ” |
| “ | 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.
1895 | ” |
| “ | Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Tel Quel 2 (1943) | ” |
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