"Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas." (Rémy de Gourmont, "Le Chemin de Velours", 1902)
"We write as we feel, as we think, with our entire body." (Rémy de Gourmont, "Le Problème du Style", 1902)
"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. Born of the sensibility, it sows and creates it in its turn. It is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life. Science, or to use a broader term, knowledge, has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species." (Rémy de Gourmont, "Art and Science", cca. 1905-1909)
"Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius." (Rémy de Gourmont, "Art and Science", cca. 1905-1909)
"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it." (Rémy de Gourmont, "Philosophic Nights in Paris", 1920)
"The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble." (Rémy de Gourmont, "Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas", 1921)
"We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence." (Rémy de Gourmont, "Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas", 1921)
"Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity." (Rémy de Gourmont)
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