Victor Hugo Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

• What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Past, Echoes

  Victor Hugo (2008). “The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Philosophy, History

• Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

  Victor Hugo

  Drama, Epic, History

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

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