Victor Cousin quotes

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. (Victor Cousin)
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. View quote
Victor Cousin
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. View quote
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. View quote
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 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. View quote
Victor Cousin
We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake. View quote
Victor Cousin