65 Quotes by Alfred de Vigny

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

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.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

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.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for good or for evil; that does us good.

Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.