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