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.
- Good memories are lost jewels.
- Vanity is only being sensitive to what other people probably think of us.
- To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself.
- To enter one's own self, it is necessary to go armed to the teeth.
- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concerns them.
- Truth confronts us, and we can no longer understand anything.
Learned Hand