Famous Quotes / Remy de Gourmont
16 Quotations by Remy de Gourmont
- 1. Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accom ...
- 2. Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
- 3. If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -- ...
- 4. Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and ag ...
- 5. Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure ...
- 6. Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
- 7. Man is the inventor of stupidity.
- 8. Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
- 9. Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for ...
- 10. Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
- 11. Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
- 12. Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
- 13. The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade o ...
- 14. The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
- 15. We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
- 16. Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.