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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

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

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

Paul Valery

History

Science

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Paul Valery

Years

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

Paul Valery

Man

Secrets

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

Love

Being

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Paul Valery

Poetry

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Paul Valery

Thoughts

Man

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Paul Valery

Loss

Man

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

Paul Valery

Attitude

Nothing

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