Victor Hugo Quotes
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.