Victor Cousin Quotes & Sayings

Below are more quotes by Victor Cousin.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

6 up, 1 down

Victor Cousin quotes

favorite

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

4 up, 4 down

Victor Cousin quotes

favorite

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

7 up, 2 down

Victor Cousin quotes

favorite

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

7 up, 1 down

Victor Cousin quotes

favorite

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things

7 up, 21 down

Victor Cousin quotes

Equality quotes Right quotes

favorite

Live Chat (Members Only)

Quotes by Victor Cousin

Featured Quote: "Dont mix bad words with your bad mood. You'll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you'll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke."

added by: NaughtyNishan

Top Users This Week

GreenMonk
68.4k

NaughtyNishan
285.8k

chineseDeviL_
31k

Users Online

New Updates! (5/25/2013) We've been working really hard on completing our new design and adding more member features. Once this is complete in the coming weeks there will be a lot more quotes by Victor Cousin and other authors. We've also changed the sorting on the site so you now see the latest Victor Cousin quotes first. Our goal is to have the best Victor Cousin quotes on the web!