Victor Hugo Quotes
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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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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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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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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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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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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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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I see black light (his last words).
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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 garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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Loving is half of believing.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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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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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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A wedding is not house-keeping.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.