Victor Hugo Quotes
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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I see black light (his last words).
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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God was bored by him.
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls.
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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
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Another story must begin!
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.