Victor Hugo Quotes about Philosophy

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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Victor Hugo

Zero, Philosophy, Nihilism

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Victor Hugo

Art, Philosophy, Crazy

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

Victor Hugo

Philosophy, Microscopes

Victor Hugo (2004). “The Essential Victor Hugo”, p.398, Oxford University Press, UK

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

Victor Hugo

Philosophy, Philosophical, Poetry

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

Victor Hugo

Educational, Philosophy, Sun

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

Victor Hugo

Art, Philosophy, History

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Victor Hugo

Strong, Philosophy, Hands

Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

Victor Hugo

Philosophy, Desire, Microscopes

Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1064, Sheba Blake Publishing

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

Victor Hugo

Wise, Philosophy, Destiny

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

Victor Hugo

Zero, Philosophy, Men

Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

Victor Hugo

Philosophy, Past, Men

Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”