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

Quote by Victor Hugo

Topics: Thought Quotes

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery...

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery...

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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...

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but...

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but...

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself....

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself....

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry

A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry

He does not weep who does not see

He does not weep who does not see

All I know is that you love me...in my dreams.

All I know is that you love me...in my dreams.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights...

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights...

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.