Nature of man Quotes by Victor Hugo

“It has been said, error is human; I say, error is love.”

— Victor Hugo

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

— Victor Hugo

“The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.”

— Victor Hugo

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

— Victor Hugo

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

— Victor Hugo

“trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.”

— Victor Hugo

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

— Victor Hugo

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and…

— Victor Hugo

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the…

— Victor Hugo

“The victory of humanity over man. Humanity had conquered the inhuman. And by what means? In what way? How had it overcome…

— Victor Hugo

“There is a prospect greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and…

— Victor Hugo

“There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and…

— Victor Hugo

“In the presence of...civil war, to testify to humanity!...to prove that above royalties, above revolutions, above earthly questions, there is the immense…

— Victor Hugo

In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great…

— Victor Hugo

“Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and…

— Victor Hugo

...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that,…

— Victor Hugo

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course…

— Victor Hugo

“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was…

— Victor Hugo

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and…

— Victor Hugo

“The real threat to society is darkness. Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is…

— Victor Hugo

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean…

— Victor Hugo

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next,…

— Victor Hugo

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance,…

— Victor Hugo

“If mankind is to advance there must be installed permanently at the head of its columns proud instances of courage. Acts of…

— Victor Hugo

“The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number…

— Victor Hugo

“The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it should be ablaze with noble and enduring lessons of…

— Victor Hugo

“The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark. To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the…

— Victor Hugo

“Can human nature be so entirely transformed inside and out? Can man, created by God, be made wicked by man? Can a…

— Victor Hugo

“He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its…

— Victor Hugo

“The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group.…

— Victor Hugo

“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He…

— Victor Hugo

“Night-time, regarded as a separate sphere of creation, is a universe in itself. The material nature of man, upon which philosophers tell…

— Victor Hugo

“the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.”

— Victor Hugo

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

— Victor Hugo

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of…

— Victor Hugo

Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,…

— Victor Hugo

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is…

— Victor Hugo

“Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness…

— Victor Hugo

The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be…

— Victor Hugo

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march.…

— Victor Hugo