"The beautiful cannot be the way to what……" — Victor Cousin
"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."
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11 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…
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In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the…
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When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning…
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You can only govern men by serving them.
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Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole…
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Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of…
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the…
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