Paul Valéry Quotes

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

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

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

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Une philosophie doit etre portative.

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

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.