More Quotes by Paul Valéry
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.
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.
To live means to lack something at every moment
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.
To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.
