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Category: Paul Valéry

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Great, Thought, Words

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

Future, Trouble, Used

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

God, Nothing, Through

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Successful, Literature, Rest

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.

Spring, Discovery, Paradox

At times I think and at times I am.

I Am, Think, I Think

Love is being stupid together.

Together, Love Is, Stupid

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.

People, Know, Profit

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Judge, Nothing, Weaknesses

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Art, Politics, People

To penetrate one’s being one must go armed to the teeth.

self, self, knowledge

Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.