France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man. Alfred de Vigny More Quotes by Alfred de Vigny More Quotes From Alfred de Vigny The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than Alfred de Vigny heartdramaphilosophy We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous. Alfred de Vigny hearttwothinking I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. Alfred de Vigny sightmenthinking The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch. Alfred de Vigny mindcharacterbelieve Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing? Alfred de Vigny shamesacred-thingsmean One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. Alfred de Vigny public-opiniontwohands Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind. Alfred de Vigny wallphilosophyart The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man. Alfred de Vigny eyeracemen What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us? Alfred de Vigny uselyingmoving
