All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of that sovereign justice which is called the State ; but it is not true, it is… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity,… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all. — Victor Cousin Copy Share
Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice… — Victor Cousin Copy Share
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the… — Victor Cousin Copy Share
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of… — Victor Cousin Copy Share
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the… — Victor Cousin Copy Share
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. — Victor Cousin Copy Share
We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake. — Victor Cousin Copy Share
Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives… — Victor Cousin Copy Share
Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography;… — Victor Cousin Copy Share
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we… — Victor Cousin Copy Share
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which… — Victor Cousin Copy Share
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to… — Victor Cousin Copy Share
