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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.
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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.
Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
— Rémy de Gourmont
In Lily Splane, Quantum Consciousness (2004), 309