Quote

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

Victor Hugo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
Librettist
Memoirist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Travel Writer
Writer
Besac
Victor Marie Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo
Victor Marie
Comte Hugo
Matter
Mind
Incurable
Deafness
Hears
Matters
Ears
True

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
Victor Hugo
Image
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo
Image
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
Victor Hugo
Image
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo
Image
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
Victor Hugo
Image
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
Victor Hugo
Image
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.
Victor Hugo
Image
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
Victor Hugo
Image
A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
Victor Hugo
Image
People do not read stupidities with impunity.
Victor Hugo
Image
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Victor Hugo
Image
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
Victor Hugo
Image
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Victor Hugo
Image
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
Victor Hugo
Image
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo
Image
Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
Victor Hugo
Image
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
Victor Hugo
Image
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo
Image
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
Victor Hugo
Image
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
Victor Hugo