Victor Hugo Quotes
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"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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L'œil était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn.
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l'histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d'arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l'Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l'aurore.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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Je représente un parti qui n'existe pas encore, le parti Révolution-Civilisation. Ce parti fera le vingtième siècle. Il en sortira d'abord les États-Unis d'Europe, puis les États-Unis du Monde.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Vous créez un frisson nouveau.
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.