85 Quotes by Remy de Gourmont

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.

Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.