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
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
There shall be no slavery of the mind.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.