Home » Man Man 1 Genius: the superhuman in man. Victor Hugo Man, Genius, Superhuman Add to Collection 2 My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. Victor Hugo Age, Man, Childhood Add to Collection 3 Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. Victor Hugo Man, Intelligence, Action Add to Collection 4 The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. Victor Hugo Women, Man, Great Add to Collection 5 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. Victor Hugo Great, Man, Great Man Add to Collection 6 Conscience is God present in man. Victor Hugo God, Man, Conscience Add to Collection 7 The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. Victor Hugo Man, Ideas, Genius Add to Collection 8 When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. Victor Hugo Art, Age, Man Add to Collection 9 A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. Victor Hugo Faith, Man, Him Add to Collection 10 Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. Victor Hugo Man, Rights, Spirit Add to Collection 11 A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo Man, Thought, Invisible Add to Collection 12 Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. Victor Hugo Hope, God, Man Add to Collection 13 Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. Victor Hugo Man, Pain, Diverse Add to Collection 14 The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo Man, Ignorant, Learned Add to Collection 15 A great artist is a great man in a great child. Victor Hugo Man, Great, Child Add to Collection 16 Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. Victor Hugo Great, Man, Great Man Add to Collection 17 A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. Victor Hugo Man, Bad, Poet Add to Collection 18 The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo Man, Animal, Ignorant Add to Collection 19 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. Victor Hugo Man, God, Philosophy Add to Collection 20 When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo Man, mind, Long Add to Collection 21 The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. Victor Hugo Man, Wise, Wise Man Add to Collection 22 The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. Victor Hugo Love, Man, Girl Add to Collection 23 Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. Victor Hugo Friends, Man, Think Add to Collection 24 There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. Victor Hugo Man, Greatness, People Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last »
