Quotes by Victor Hugo

Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

A library implies an act of faith.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.