Victor Cousin

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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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

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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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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

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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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