Favors Quotes by Remy de Gourmont

2 Favors quotes by Remy de Gourmont

All Favors quotes Remy de Gourmont’s page

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Remy de Gourmont

Image

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.

Remy de Gourmont

Image

Other authors on Favors

More by Remy de Gourmont

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

Remy de Gourmont

Image

“La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men following each other uncomprehendingly, almost undiscerningly, so different are their souls, & always summed up, to the moment of their decline, by the child, the future, the “nebula”, whose birth, finally confirmed, brings death. Under its morning clearness,…

Remy de Gourmont

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

Remy de Gourmont

Image

“The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.”

Remy de Gourmont

Image

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to…

Remy de Gourmont