Victor Hugo Quotes
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Love is a fault; so be it.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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I was dying when you came.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.