Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.Remy de Gourmont
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Remy de Gourmont
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
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.
Remy de Gourmont
Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
Remy de Gourmont
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