Paul Valery Quotes
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Power without abuse loses its charm. Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. 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. That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. 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. The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. 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. Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. 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. We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
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