Edgar Quinet Quotes

"It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion."
-Edgar Quinet

"Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot."
-Edgar Quinet

"The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world."
-Edgar Quinet

"I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms."
-Edgar Quinet

"What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?"
-Edgar Quinet

"Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect."
-Edgar Quinet

"An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body."
-Edgar Quinet