Victor Hugo Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

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

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

• There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Philosophy, Hands

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

• Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Zero, Philosophy, Nihilism

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

• Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Microscopes

  Victor Hugo (2004). “The Essential Victor Hugo”, p.398, Oxford University Press, UK

• All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

  Victor Hugo

  Zero, Philosophy, Men

• Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Energy, Should

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.133

• If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

  Victor Hugo

  Educational, Philosophy, Sun

• 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

• Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Poetry

• Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Desire, Microscopes

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1064, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Past, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”

• During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Philosophy, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

• All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Answers, Blocked

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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