Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing. Victor Hugo lasts science firsts The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion. Victor Hugo pride moon god He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs. Victor Hugo triumph wisdom secret Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall! Victor Hugo wall spiritual dream What love commences can be finished by God alone. Victor Hugo finished The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones. Victor Hugo growing-up mother believe Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise. Victor Hugo climbing light night For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. Victor Hugo deeds-done done struggle She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved. Victor Hugo passion ignorance evil My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. Victor Hugo democratic taste action The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo wisdom animal men The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. Victor Hugo agony wall doors There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. Victor Hugo demolition vacuums heart What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing! Victor Hugo death-penalty law doe This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise. Victor Hugo wise reality facts Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Victor Hugo war peace civilization There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. Victor Hugo curious wall behinds Despotism is a long crime. Victor Hugo despotism crime long What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven. Victor Hugo positive love romantic 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 called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean. Victor Hugo ocean wisdom sea
