Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry and then from his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862,...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 February 1802
CityBesancon, France
CountryFrance
There is nothing as exciting as an idea whose time has come
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.