219 Quotes by Paul Valéry

The wind is rising...we must attempt to live.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Sometimes I think and other times I am.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.