More Quotes by Paul Valéry
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Sometime I think; and sometime I am.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
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.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.