Remy de Gourmont

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.