Quote

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

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
Good
Methods
Sincere
Method
Prayer
Long

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Victor Hugo
Image
When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
Victor Hugo
Image
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Image
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
Victor Hugo
Image
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo
Image
He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
Victor Hugo
Image
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Victor Hugo
Image
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
Image
Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Victor Hugo
Image
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
Victor Hugo
Image
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
Victor Hugo
Image
In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
Victor Hugo
Image
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
Victor Hugo
Image
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo
Image
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
Victor Hugo
Image
Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
Victor Hugo
Image
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
Victor Hugo
Image
Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
Victor Hugo
Image
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
Victor Hugo