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Idea Quotes by Victor Hugo
- One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
- You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
- A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
- The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
- All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
- Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
- The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
- No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is…
- Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked…
- When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
- You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the…
- There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- And why is it that some men just can't deal with the idea that a smart, together, professional woman like me can actually deserve their…
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