"When we read with attention the poetical and……" — Victor Cousin
"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 there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy."
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Victor Cousin
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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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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy;…
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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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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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