Quotes from Paul Valery

Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Love is being stupid together.

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

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

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

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

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

History is the science of what never happens twice.

At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body, the mind.

There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm...you will triumph." Paul Valery via Miriam Toews

Disgusted with being right, with doing what succeeds, with the effectiveness of methods, try something else.

El dolor es siempre pregunta, y el placer, respuesta