Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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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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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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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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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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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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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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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.
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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.
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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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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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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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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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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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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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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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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.