1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

We are for religion against the religions.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.