Invents Nothing Quotes by Victor Cousin

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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 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…
• 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…
• When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread…
• 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…
• Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms…
• All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection…

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