"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."

Valery, Paul on The future
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"Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows."

Valery, Paul on Justice
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"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh."

Valery, Paul on Anxiety
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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

Valery, Paul on Poetry and Poets
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"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."

Valery, Paul on Science and Scientists
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"Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science."

Valery, Paul on Science and Scientists
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"Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself."

Valery, Paul on Self-sabotage
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"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false."

Valery, Paul on Belief
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"A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."

Valery, Paul on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh."

Valery, Paul on Truth
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"A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations."

Valery, Paul on Work
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"Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."

Valery, Paul on Creativity
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"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

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