Victor Cousin Quotes

"Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice."
- Victor Cousin
(Related: Ignorance, Misery, Vice)

"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
(Related: Men, Nature, Development, Laws, Protection, Reason, Right, State)

"True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is."
- Victor Cousin
(Related: 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
(Related: Home, War, Idea, World)