I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India for its vehicle; Alexander upon the elephant.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In our nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Certain things have been unlearnt, and this is good, provided other… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Exile is not a material thing, it is a spiritual thing. All corners of the earth are exactly the same. And anywhere… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
