Quotes By Paul Valery

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

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

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

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

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

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

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.