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

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Paul Valery

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Paul Valery

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Paul Valery

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Paul Valery

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Paul Valery

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.

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valery

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.

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Paul Valery

Politeness is organized indifference.

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valery

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

Paul Valery

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

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At times I think and at times I am.

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Paul Valery

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

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

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

Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery