Victor Hugo Quotes
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Dieu se manifeste à nous au premier degré à travers la vie de l’univers, et au deuxième degré à travers la pensée de l’homme. La deuxième manifestation n’est pas moins sacrée que la première. La première s’appelle la Nature, la deuxième s’appelle l’Art.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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Vous créez un frisson nouveau.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables.
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Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Morne plaine!
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.