Quotes by Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.