Victor Hugo Quotes
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smil.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second.
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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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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.