Remy de Gourmont Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.