Quotes by Hugo, Victor

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are t >>

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly underst >>

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. >>

Quotations about Progress

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help >>

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? >>

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the fu >>

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.

Hugo, Victor