Invention Quote by Remy de Gourmont Download Open image “Man is the inventor of stupidity.” — Remy de Gourmont ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Invention Inventor Men Stupidity
“It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity we see today is induced by our educational system,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men following each… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was a giant… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“It is a communion at once mystic & real, in the guise of metal. Money which is liberty, is also fecundation. It is the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
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