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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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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Genius: the superhuman in man.

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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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