Victor Cousin Quotes

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.
Victor Cousin

History, Home, War

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin

Ignorance, Misery, Source

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
Victor Cousin

Nature, Men, True

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

Good, Beautiful, Cannot

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

True, Nothing, Philosophy

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 28, 1792

Died: January 13, 1867

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