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

- Remy De Gourmont

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

- Remy De Gourmont

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

- Remy De Gourmont

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

- Remy De Gourmont

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; comm…

- Remy De Gourmont

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

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. I…

- Remy De Gourmont

Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, sin…

- Remy De Gourmont

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

- Remy De Gourmont