Victor Hugo Quotes
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second.
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In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.
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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
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Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
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Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.