16+ Paul Ambroise Valery Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Paul Ambroise Valery quotes and sayings.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. — Paul Ambroise Valery

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing. — Paul Ambroise Valery

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. — Paul Ambroise Valery

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

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. — Paul Ambroise Valery

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. — Paul Ambroise Valery

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. — Paul Ambroise Valery

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science. — Paul Ambroise Valery

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. — Paul Ambroise Valery

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

There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life:1) To produce them or2) To plunder them.When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. — Paul Ambroise Valery

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. — Paul Ambroise Valery

Our judgments judge us; and nothing reveals us or exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. — Paul Ambroise Valery

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. — Paul Ambroise Valery

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh. — Paul Ambroise Valery

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. — Paul Ambroise Valery