3 Paul Valery Quotes on Truth

Paul Valery quotes on truth

1. 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.

7. Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of 'truth' and the language of 'creation.'

16. That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.