Remy de Gourmont Quotes

There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it.

Truth is a big concept.

Exactitude is not truth.

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

There are many levels of truth.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.