The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Time is the fairest and toughest judge. - Edgar Quinet
Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
- Edgar Quinet
What we share with another ceases to be our own. - Edgar Quinet
What we share with another ceases to be our own.
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while a… - Edgar Quinet
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while a…
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. - Edgar Quinet
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. - Edgar Quinet
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body. - Edgar Quinet
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot. - Edgar Quinet
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. - Edgar Quinet
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes… - Edgar Quinet
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes…
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