Rémy de Gourmont
(4 Apr 1858 - 27 Sep 1915)

French poet who was also an essayist, considered the most brilliant French critic of the early 1900s. He also wrote novels.

Science Quotes by Rémy de Gourmont (2)

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.
— Rémy de Gourmont
Rémy de Gourmont and Glenn Stephen Burne (ed.), Selected Writings (1966), 170.
See also:  |  Art And Science (17)  |  Desire (12)  |  Knowledge (330)  |  Life (155)  |  Sharpen (3)

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
— Rémy de Gourmont
In Lily Splane, Quantum Consciousness (2004), 309
See also:  |  Intelligence (31)  |  Stupidity (6)


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