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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Science Quotes , Men Quotes

We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Real Quotes , Silence Quotes

Oh! Everything I loved!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Suicide Quotes , Sublime Quotes

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Listening Quotes

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Mother Quotes , Events Quotes

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sovereign Quotes , Eloquence Quotes

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Night Quotes , Darkness Quotes

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Insult Quotes

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Female Quotes , Pebbles Quotes

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Two Quotes , Blades Quotes

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Real Quotes , Vices Quotes

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Dream Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

God was bored by him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Vision Quotes , Telescopes Quotes

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Flower Quotes

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Men Quotes

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Law Quotes , Boredom Quotes