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Paul Valéry
(30 Oct 1871 - 20 Jul 1945)
French poet, essayist and philosopher.
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Science Quotes by Paul Valéry (5)
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
— Paul Valéry
Mauvaises pensées et autres (1942). In Bill Swainson and Anne H. Soukhanov. Encarta Book of Quotations (2000), 951.
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.
— Paul Valéry
In John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced (1968), 857.
See also: | Discovery (178) | Folly (4) | Metaphor (4) | Oracle (2) | Paradox (13) | Proof (63) | Truth (247)
The object of psychology is to give us a totally different idea of the things we know best.
— Paul Valéry
Tel quel (1943). In Bill Swainson and Anne H. Soukhanov. Encarta Book of Quotations (2000), 951.
See also: | Psychology (54)
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
— Paul Valéry
Mauvaises pensées et autres (1942). In Bill Swainson and Anne H. Soukhanov. Encarta Book of Quotations (2000), 951.
See also: | Truth (247)
The term Science should not be given to anything but the aggregate of the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
— Paul Valéry
Moralités (1932). In Bill Swainson and Anne H. Soukhanov. Encarta Book of Quotations (2000), 951.
See also: | Science (463)
