Quotes by Gourmont, Remy De

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

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

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, >>

Quotations about Definition

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each ot >>

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries >>

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human king >>

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.

Gourmont, Remy De