Psychology Quotes by Victor Hugo

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

— Victor Hugo

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

— Victor Hugo

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

— Victor Hugo

In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

— Victor Hugo

“On ne lit pas impunément des niaiseries”

— Victor Hugo

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

— Victor Hugo

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

— Victor Hugo

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

— Victor Hugo

“His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship.”

— Victor Hugo

“Words being but a breath, the stir of awakened minds is like the rustling of leaves.”

— Victor Hugo

“All I wanted was to be put to death without torment. It was perhaps a weakness, but I believe that the mind…

— Victor Hugo

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

— Victor Hugo

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

— Victor Hugo

“Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.”

— Victor Hugo

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

— Victor Hugo

“He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. "The mind is a garden," said he.”

— Victor Hugo

“Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From…

— Victor Hugo

Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will;…

— Victor Hugo

“When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to…

— Victor Hugo

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our…

— Victor Hugo

“Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers…

— Victor Hugo

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is…

— Victor Hugo

“Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch…

— Victor Hugo

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are…

— Victor Hugo

“any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable…

— Victor Hugo

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which…

— Victor Hugo

“They fathomed principle; they attached themselves to right. They longed for the absolute, they caught glimpses of the infinite realisations; the absolute,…

— Victor Hugo

“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain…

— Victor Hugo

There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even…

— Victor Hugo

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the…

— Victor Hugo

“We are never done, then, with conscience. Make up your mind what to do with it, Brutus; make up your mind what…

— Victor Hugo

“Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown…

— Victor Hugo

“This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He…

— Victor Hugo

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

— Victor Hugo

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

— Victor Hugo

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

— Victor Hugo

“Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no…

— Victor Hugo

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

— Victor Hugo

“The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.”

— Victor Hugo

“What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!”

— Victor Hugo