Science means simply the aggregate of al... by Paul Valery | We Heart Quotes

Art Literature Rest philosopher Poetry

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

- Paul Valery

Other quotes by Paul Valery

Disorder

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

- Paul Valery

Art People

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

- Paul Valery

Years

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

- Paul Valery

Key Sound Man

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

- Paul Valery

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

- Paul Valery

Being Love

Love is being stupid together.

- Paul Valery

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

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