Victor Hugo Quotes

Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French Author
Born: Feb 26, 1802
Died: May 22, 1885
God Great Life Love Man Soul
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. Victor Hugo
Great Book Architecture Thought Every Great Ideas Religious Recorded Only Vast Ideas Human Race Page Human Race Human Thought Symbol
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. Victor Hugo
Rights People Strong Big Duty Weak Must Sacred Big Ones Little Little People
A war between Europeans is a civil war. Victor Hugo
War Civil Civil War Between Europeans
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. Victor Hugo
Day Me Impossible Men Become Like Until Necessary
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. Victor Hugo
Dignity Master Worse Only Command Than Person Owns Your Creditor
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. Victor Hugo
God Unjust Way No Reason Towards Like Because Reason Things
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. Victor Hugo
Great Man Women Darkness Problems Three Proletariat Hunger Degradation Atrophy Through Subjection Child Century
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. Victor Hugo
Man Poet Bad Degraded Bad Man More Than Being Who
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. Victor Hugo
Soul Bird Wings Supported Them Illusions
Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. Victor Hugo
Man Intelligence Speak Thought Breath Action Publish Waves Circles More Attacks Absolutely Write Identical Concerned Himself Very Than Far Whoever Right Things
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. Victor Hugo
Time Past Telescope See Past Time Microscope Apparent Hence Present Present Time
Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. Victor Hugo
Love Strange Eyes Words World Passion Carnal Possession Destroys Absence Abuse Does Said Endure Either Which Fancy Commonly Appetite Why Vague
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. Victor Hugo
Everything Carnival Constant Left Being
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo
Man Thought Visible He Absorb Invisible Because Idle Labor
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. Victor Hugo
Men Poison Become Degrees Accustomed
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! Victor Hugo
Art Myself Soul Will Abyss Elsewhere Earth Thou Thou Art Shall Know Render Well Am Go Up Which Grave
The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo
Man He Learned Knows Learned Man Ignorant
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! Victor Hugo
Love Still Loved Grand To Love Grander Thing
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. Victor Hugo
Soul Inseparable Poetic Noble Almost Talent Always Real
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo
Man Mind Long Before Too Sight Out He
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. Victor Hugo
Man Rights Beside Spirit Least Close Them Set
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. Victor Hugo
Progress Has-Been Advanced Over Been Handled Revolutions Human Race Realize Human Race Roughly
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. Victor Hugo
Aristocratic Democratic Tastes Actions
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. Victor Hugo
Action Pleasant Someone Disagreeable Like Most Does Commit Just Which Whom
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. Victor Hugo
Great Man Rest Great Man Seems Smaller Disproportion
Genius: the superhuman in man. Victor Hugo
Man Genius Superhuman
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