The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. A day will come when the bullets and bombs are replaced by votes, by universal suffrage, by the venerable arbitration of a great supreme senate which will be to Europe what Parliament is to England, the Diet to Germany, and the Legislative Assembly to France.
A day will come when a cannon will be a museum-piece, as instruments of torture are today. And we will be amazed to think that these things once existed!
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Victor Hugo (Born February 26, 1802) - Wikiquote "It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise...."
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