Victor Hugo Quotes, Life Quotes, Stars Quotes

In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

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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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Algebra applies to the clouds.

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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

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