Edgar Quinet Inspirational Quotes (6)

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.