Victor Hugo Quotes, Science Quotes, Men Quotes

It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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Emotion is always new.

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

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To love another person is to see the face of God.

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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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

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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

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Art needs no spur beyond itself.

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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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