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 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 consciousness different life-is Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time Remy de Gourmont hard-work ideas thinking 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 life science lying Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. Remy de Gourmont aberration peculiar drinking Art is the accomplice of love. Remy de Gourmont accomplices art-is art 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-love ends men 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 prejudice men ideas Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. Remy de Gourmont ends ideas knowledge Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. Remy de Gourmont art-is love art 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-penalty affinity favors Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end. Remy de Gourmont autumn nature sweet 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 expression beauty art Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity. Remy de Gourmont intelligent stupid men 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 curse wealth liberty Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. Remy de Gourmont obedient demon dog Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction Remy de Gourmont elements two facts Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live Remy de Gourmont desire-to-live desire art 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 idlers humanity war Man is the inventor of stupidity. Remy de Gourmont stupid men funny Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life. Remy de Gourmont science knowledge art
