Paul Valéry
“The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”
“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
“We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.”
“What is there more mysterious than clarity?”
“Man can act only because he can ignore.”
“Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.”
“Politeness is organized indifference.”
“That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.”
“A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death.”
“The wind is rising... we must try to live.”