Quote: Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: A poem is never finished, only abandoned. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: History is the science of things which are not repeated. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: Love is being stupid together. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: Power without abuse loses its charm. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: 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. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: 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. [Pol Valeri]
Quote: Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. [Pol Valeri]