Quotes by Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

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The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman. — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and epheme — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of fa — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity. — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl. — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Abstractions do us much harm by impelling us to the quest of the absolute in all things. Joy does not exist, but there a — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Nothing returns, nothing begins anew; it is never the same thing, and yet it seems always the same. For, if the days nev — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the tro — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss. — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank. — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we shoul — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over. — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques