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Victor Cousin
French
Philosopher
About the author
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,
French
Philosopher
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin,
French
Philosopher
#Ignorance
#Vice
#Misery
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,
French
Philosopher
#Right
#Reason
#State
#Men
#Nature
#Development
#Protection
#Laws
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor Cousin,
French
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Philosophy
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,
French
Philosopher
#World
#Home
#War
#Idea