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.
The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all. - Victor Cousin
The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.
- Victor Cousin
Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transpar… - Victor Cousin
Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transpar…
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. - Victor Cousin
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
You can only govern men by serving them. - Victor Cousin
You can only govern men by serving them.
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe-… - Victor Cousin
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe-…
We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake. - Victor Cousin
We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. G… - Victor Cousin
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. G…
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. - Victor Cousin
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of that sovereign justi… - Victor Cousin
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of that sovereign justi…
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