Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Quote by Remy De Gourmont

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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor...

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor...

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits...

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits...

The woman who loves always smells good.

The woman who loves always smells good.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing...

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing...

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will,...

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will,...

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure...

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure...

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to...

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to...

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.