God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. -Paul Valery Alone
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. -Paul Valery Attitude
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. -Paul Valery Business
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. -Paul Valery Politics
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 History
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. -Paul Valery Science
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 Science
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 War
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. -Paul Valery Best
