#ran

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bring #fraternity #great #light #perils

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 the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#france #kings #yes

Liberation is not deliverance. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#liberation

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#flesh #invisible #invisible world #luminous #night

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#epic #grandiose #ideal #lives #ode

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#ignorance #prayer

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

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

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#dissolution #faith #look #now #once