Rémy De Gourmont Quotes
Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.
How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.
The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.
Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.
Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.
It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.
To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.
The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.