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. Remy de Gourmont More Quotes by Remy de Gourmont More Quotes From Remy de Gourmont Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness Remy de Gourmont consciousnessdifferentlife-is Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time Remy de Gourmont hard-workideasthinking Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius. Remy de Gourmont lifesciencelying The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. Remy de Gourmont tangledperceptionmind Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. Remy de Gourmont aberrationpeculiardrinking Art is the accomplice of love. Remy de Gourmont accomplicesart-isart Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love. Remy de Gourmont loving-loveendsmen 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. Remy de Gourmont prejudicemenideas Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. Remy de Gourmont endsideasknowledge Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. Remy de Gourmont art-isloveart It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. Remy de Gourmont death-penaltyaffinityfavors Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end. Remy de Gourmont autumnnaturesweet Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman. Remy de Gourmont expressionbeautyart Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity. Remy de Gourmont intelligentstupidmen 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 cursewealthliberty Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. Remy de Gourmont obedientdemondog Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction Remy de Gourmont elementstwofacts Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live Remy de Gourmont desire-to-livedesireart 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. Remy de Gourmont idlershumanitywar Man is the inventor of stupidity. Remy de Gourmont stupidmenfunny
