{"id":953,"date":"2013-09-01T11:12:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T11:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=953"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:12:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T11:12:39","slug":"953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Paul Valery quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" style=\"width: 125px; height: 123px;\" alt=\"Speech marks\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks-150x150.png\" width=\"118\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a>Valery, Paul (1871 &#8211; 1945), French critic &amp; poet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through (Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.<\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A poem is never finished, only abandoned.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valery, Paul (1871 &#8211; 1945), French critic &amp; poet God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through (Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.) 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