Home » Victor Hugo Victor Hugo Victor Hugo 1 One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' Victor Hugo Life, Sometimes, Bored Add to Collection 2 Genius: the superhuman in man. Victor Hugo Man, Genius, Superhuman Add to Collection 3 Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. Victor Hugo Idleness, Heaviest Add to Collection 4 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 5 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 6 Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. Victor Hugo God, Reason, Way Add to Collection 7 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. Victor Hugo Family, Freedom, Liberty Add to Collection 8 I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. Victor Hugo Love, Myself, Men Add to Collection 9 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 10 A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. Victor Hugo Soul, Talent, Real Add to Collection 11 When liberty returns, I will return. Victor Hugo Liberty, Return, Will Add to Collection 12 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. Victor Hugo River, Intelligent Add to Collection 13 What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. Victor Hugo Done, English, French Add to Collection 14 The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. Victor Hugo God, Word, Verb Add to Collection 15 Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. Victor Hugo Eyes, World, Night Add to Collection 16 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 17 Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. Victor Hugo Ignorance, Prayer, August Add to Collection 18 One believes others will do what he will do to himself. Victor Hugo Others, Will, Himself Add to Collection 19 There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. Victor Hugo Nature, Rules, Laws Add to Collection 20 Conscience is God present in man. Victor Hugo God, Man, Conscience Add to Collection 21 To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. Victor Hugo God, Think, Striving Add to Collection 22 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 23 Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. Victor Hugo History, Good, Great Add to Collection 24 The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. Victor Hugo Beautiful, Ugly, Thousand Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next › last »
