Edgar Quinet Quotes

• Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

  Edgar Quinet

  Time, Judging, Time Management

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• Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

  Edgar Quinet

  Ambition, Often Is, Parent

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• An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

  Edgar Quinet

  Education, Mind, Body

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• Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.

  Edgar Quinet

  Time, Peace, Flower

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• What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

  Edgar Quinet

  Political, World, Realizing

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.78

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• It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

  Edgar Quinet

  People, Religion, Secret

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.78

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• Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

  Edgar Quinet

  Philosophy, May, Philosopher

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• I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

  Edgar Quinet

  Satisfaction, Infinity, Mistrust

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.72

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• Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

  Edgar Quinet

  Discovery, Wish, Orthodoxy

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.87

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• What we share with another ceases to be our own.

  Edgar Quinet

  Share, Cease

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• The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

  Edgar Quinet

  War, History, Mask

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• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  Edgar Quinet

  Past, Law, Humanity

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• Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

  Edgar Quinet

  Christian, Depth, Letters

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.73

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