Remy de Gourmont Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.”

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

“Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.”

“Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.”

“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.”

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

“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.”

“The woman who loves always smells good.”

“Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.”

“In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.”