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

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first …

- Remy De Gourmont

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

- Remy De Gourmont

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

- 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

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

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

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