The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
