{"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.) Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=953\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-quotations","tag-famous-quotations-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}