About Remy de Gourmont: Remy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work.
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
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.
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
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.
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
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.
