Remy de Gourmont Quotes & Sayings

“Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.”

“The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.”

“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.”

“Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.”

“Man is the inventor of stupidity.”

“Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.”

“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”

“Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.”

“Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.”

“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.”