What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. — Quoted

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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”

Victor Hugo · Beauty

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Victor Hugo

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.

God

Victor Hugo

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Work

Victor Hugo

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

Faith

Victor Hugo

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Good