Remy de Gourmont Quotes

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Remy de Gourmont

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• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
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• I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• Material interests are not the only guiding light.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
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• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
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• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
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• Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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• As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
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• Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• The government has a sacred duty to address the nation and make it listen to the voice of its greatest rights and interests.

  

  Benito Juarez
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• This is somebody who knows how to stand up to you and me -- who knows how to push back against special interests, who knows how to stand up when matters of ethics and integrity come to the fore.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
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• Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

  

  Euripides
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• He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity.

  

  Confucius
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• The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Two truths cannot contradict one another.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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• Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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  • Interests

• Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
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• Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be.

  

  David Graham Phillips
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• I've just grown into not having to care so much and to not try to think that I'm going to be able to plan out the way that everyone perceives me. There are no false impressions. Everyone's impression of you is going to be what it is in that isolated moment.

  

  Kristen Stewart
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  • Moments

• The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.

  

  Alexander Crummell
  • Being
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  • Conceptions

• When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Children
  • Pleasure
  • Mature

• Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

  

  Remy de Gourmont
  • Interests
  • Truths
  • Prejudices