Philosophy Quotes by Victor Hugo

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

— Victor Hugo

“Sin is a gravitation.”

— Victor Hugo

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

— Victor Hugo

“Parfois, insurrection, c'est résurrection.”

— Victor Hugo

“after philosophy, action is required;”

— Victor Hugo

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

— Victor Hugo

“A priest and a philosopher are two different things”

— Victor Hugo

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

— Victor Hugo

“There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.”

— Victor Hugo

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

— Victor Hugo

“More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

— Victor Hugo

“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”

— Victor Hugo

“That's life" said the philosopher each time he was almost laid prostrate, "It's often our best friends who make us fall”

— Victor Hugo

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and…

— Victor Hugo

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea…

— Victor Hugo

“There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun;…

— Victor Hugo

“People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.”

— Victor Hugo

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

— Victor Hugo

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

— Victor Hugo

“There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the…

— Victor Hugo

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that…

— Victor Hugo

“But you are good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in the good God should constitute…

— Victor Hugo

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the…

— Victor Hugo

“Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it. "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective.…

— Victor Hugo

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has…

— Victor Hugo

“There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the…

— Victor Hugo

“Go on philosophers--teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad…

— Victor Hugo

Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery…

— Victor Hugo

“Sacrificing earth to paradise is like leaving your fortune to a corpse. I'm not that stupid. Duped by the Infinite! I am…

— Victor Hugo

“Proceed, philosophers, teach, enlighten, enkindle, think aloud, speak aloud, run joyously towards the bright daylight, fraternise in the public squares, announce the…

— Victor Hugo

“In a vast space left free between the crowd and the fire, a young girl was dancing. Whether this young girl was…

— Victor Hugo

“PREFACE TO THE 1832 EDITION At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of…

— Victor Hugo

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

— Victor Hugo

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates…

— Victor Hugo

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

— Victor Hugo

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

— Victor Hugo

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race

— Victor Hugo