Victor Hugo Quotes


201 quotes:

"People do not lack strength; they lack will."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Endurance Quotes French Author Quotes
"It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Sleep Quotes
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right"
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Revolution Quotes
"Life is a voyage."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Quote of the Day Quotes
"Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Punishment Quotes
"Progress is the stride of God."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Progress Quotes
"Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Progress Quotes
"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?"
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Potential Quotes
"The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, ''That is all there was!'' But twist them all together and you have something tremendous."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Mistakes Quotes
"Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it"
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Life Quotes
"To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Language Quotes
"Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Integrity Quotes
"There is nothing as exciting as an idea whose time has come"
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Ideas Quotes
"There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance"
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Honor Quotes
"One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: History And Historians Quotes
"For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Gossip Quotes
"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past"
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Future Quotes
"At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry - Les Miserables"
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Friends Or Friendship Quotes Quote of the Day Quotes
"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: French Author Quotes
"One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: French Author Quotes

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