“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.”
Paul Valery“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.”
Paul Valery“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”
Paul Valery“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
Paul Valery“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.”
Paul Valery“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
Paul Valery“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.”
Paul Valery