To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth. Paul Valery More Quotes by Paul Valery More Quotes From Paul Valery The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery motivationalpositiveinspirational 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 poetrywarpeople There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: Paul Valery togethermentwo History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. Paul Valery dreammemoriespeople An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants. Paul Valery intelligentstupidwant Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences. Paul Valery mutualdifferencesinspirational Nothing beautiful can be summarized. Paul Valery beautifulbeauty An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next. Paul Valery growingmindattitude A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Paul Valery lost-friendshiplossmen Sometimes I think, sometimes I am . Paul Valery sometimesthinking If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. Paul Valery hatefulegolove-you The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery futuretroubletime What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood. Paul Valery understoodsimplecomplicated A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun. Paul Valery lightmindfulnesssun We hope vaguely but dread precisely. Paul Valery dread Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. Paul Valery seriouspeopleideas To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth. Paul Valery teethmindneeds Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Paul Valery businesspeopleart Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo. Paul Valery ignoranceeducationmen [Beauty is] that which makes us despair. Paul Valery despair
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