219 Quotes by Paul Valéry

J'ai connu un être bizarre qui croyait tout ce qu'il lisait dans un certain journal, et rien de ce qu'il lisait dans un autre. C'était un original ; enfermé depuis.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

At times I think and at times I am.