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Paul Valery Quotes

French - Poet | October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Always Everyone False Been Almost

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

World Two Order Dangers Disorder

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

Differences Our Reciprocate Enriched

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Science History Things Repeated

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

Man Secrets True Others More Secret

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

Poetry Impossible Said Say Well

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

Fire People Weather Animals Enemies

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Business Art Politics People Own

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

Science Rest Literature Always Means

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

Art Man Ideas Difficulties Him Poet

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

History Great Words Thought Up May

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

Time Thoughts Possibilities Infinite

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