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Ideas Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
- A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
- 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 day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
- Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by…
- 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.
- The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast…
- Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
- One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
- 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.
- Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
- No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
- 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.
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