Paul Valéry Quotes

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.