Victor Cousin Quotes

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• All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain…
• In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
• Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
• The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
• True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
• 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;…
• 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 discover…
• You can only govern men by serving them.
• Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give…
• Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it…
• 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;…

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