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

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

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

Paul Valery

 Animals French Poet
Power without abuse loses its charm - Paul Valery Quotes

Power without abuse loses its charm

Paul Valery

 Abuse
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. - Paul Valery Quotes

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Valery

 Art French Poet
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery Quotes

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

Paul Valery

 French Poet Future
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. - Paul Valery Quotes

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

Paul Valery

 French Poet
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. - Paul Valery Quotes

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.

Paul Valery

 Discovery French Poet
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. - Paul Valery Quotes

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Paul Valery

 French Poet
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. - Paul Valery Quotes

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

Paul Valery

 Bitterness
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. - Paul Valery Quotes

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Paul Valery

 French Poet
God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through - Paul Valery Quotes

God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through

Paul Valery

 God
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