Paul Valery

Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), full name Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry, was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

- Mauvaises Pensées

• Good memories are lost jewels.

- Mauvaises Pensées

• Vanity is only being sensitive to what other people probably think of us.

- Mauvaises Pensées

• To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself.

- Choses Tues

• To enter one's own self, it is necessary to go armed to the teeth.

- Quelques Pensées de Monsieur Teste

• Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concerns them.

- Tel quel

• Truth confronts us, and we can no longer understand anything.

- Eupalinos

Learned Hand