The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

- Victor Cousin

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

- Victor Cousin

You can only govern men by serving them.

- 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

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

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

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

- Victor Cousin

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

- Victor Cousin

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

- Victor Cousin