Paul Valery Quotes & Sayings

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

“Love is being stupid together.”

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

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

“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”

“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.”

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

“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”

“At times I think and at times I am.”

“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.”