#act

A library implies an act of faith. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#faith #implies #library

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#children #deeds #make #mar #our

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#circle #facts #focal #ideas #mankind

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#aware #fact #ignorant #knows #man

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#commit #disagreeable #does #just #like

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#aristocratic #democratic #tastes

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#boat #current #does #flowing #going

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#contents #creates #greater #itself #much

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#causal #connections #creates #establishing #facts

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#character #dam #either #europe #european