More Quotes by Paul Valéry
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Politeness is organized indifference.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
Love is being stupid together.
The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Poems are never finished - just abandoned.
The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!
