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.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must...

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must...

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely

Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought...

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought...

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea...

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea...

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal...

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal...

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol,...

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol,...

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good...

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good...

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong;...

Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong;...

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time...

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time...

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather...

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather...

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the...

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the...

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the...

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the...