Remy de Gourmont

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

— Remy de Gourmont

“La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men…

— Remy de Gourmont

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

— Remy de Gourmont

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

— Remy de Gourmont

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is…

— Remy de Gourmont

“Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.”

— Remy de Gourmont

“The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was…

— Remy de Gourmont

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life…

— Remy de Gourmont

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be…

— Remy de Gourmont

“It is a communion at once mystic & real, in the guise of metal. Money which is liberty, is also fecundation. It…

— Remy de Gourmont

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

— Remy de Gourmont

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love…

— Remy de Gourmont

Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the…

— Remy de Gourmont

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw,…

— Remy de Gourmont

“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.”

— Remy de Gourmont

“It is undefinable; and moreover, if it were defined it would lose all its value. God is not all that exists; God…

— Remy de Gourmont

Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means…

— Remy de Gourmont

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things…

— Remy de Gourmont

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

— Remy de Gourmont

“It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.”

— Remy de Gourmont

“It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference…

— Remy de Gourmont

“Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.”

— Remy de Gourmont

Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them…

— Remy de Gourmont

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

— Remy de Gourmont

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical…

— Remy de Gourmont