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The work appearing superhuman, people wish to …

The work appearing superhuman, people wish to exhibit the intervention of the extra-human: in antiquity. the tripod; in our days, the table. The table is nothing but the tripod come again. To accept in...

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Science is ignorant, and has no right to …

Science is ignorant, and has no right to laugh: a savant who laughs at the possible, is very near being an idiot. The unexpected ought always to be expected by Science. Her duty is to stop it in its...

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The mission of Science is …

The mission of Science is to study and sound everything. All of us, according to our degree, are the creditors of investigation; We are its debtors also. It is due to us, and we owe it to others. To...

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God has not made this marvelous distillery of …

God has not made this marvelous distillery of thought, – the brain of man, – in order to make no use of it.The man of genius has need of no apparatus but his brain; through it his every thought must...

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Poetry is the poet`s own. Let us be respectful before the …

Poetry is the poet`s own. Let us be respectful before the possible, of which no one knows the limit. Let us be attentive and serious before the extra – human, out of which we come, and which awaits us;...

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Supreme Art is the region of …

Supreme Art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces. Like water, which heated to a hundred degrees will bear no increase of temperature, human thought attains in certain men its...

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The human mind has a summit …

The human mind has a summit, – the ideal; to this summit God descends, man rises. William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo  Filed under: Victor Hugo

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There can be but one law; the unity of law results from the …

There can be but one law; the unity of law results from the unity of essence: Nature and Art are the two slopes of the same fact. And in principle, saving the restriction which we shall indicate very...

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Poetry, like Science, has an abstract …

Poetry, like Science, has an abstract root. Science produces from that root masterpieces of metal, wood, fire, or air,- machine, ship, locomotive, aerostat; Poetry causes to grow from it the...

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Nothing so starts and prolongs the thrill felt by the thinker as …

Nothing so starts and prolongs the thrill felt by the thinker as those mysterious exfoliations of abstraction into reality in the double region ( the one positive, the other infinite) of human thought,...

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Progress is the motive …

Progress is the motive-power of Science; the ideal is the generator of Art.  William Shakespeare by Victor HugoFiled under: Victor Hugo

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A savant may outshine a …

A savant may outshine a savant; a poet never throws a poet into the shade. William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo Filed under: Victor Hugo

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Poets do not climb over …

Poets do not climb over each other. The one is not the stepping-stone of the other. The poet rises alone, without any other lever than himself. He does not tread his equal under foot. The new-comers...

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The human mind is the infinite …

The human mind is the infinite possible. The master-works, immense worlds, are generated within it unceasingly; and abide there forever. No crowding of one against the other; no recoil. The occlusions,...

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In Science, all tends to stir, to change, to form fresh …

In Science, all tends to stir, to change, to form fresh surfaces. All denies, destroys, creates, replaces all. What was ground yesterday is put into the hopper again today. The colossal machine,...

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Science makes discoveries, Art composes …

Science makes discoveries; Art composes works. Science is an acquirement of man; Science is a ladder: one savant mounts above his fellow. Poetry is a soaring flight. William Shakespeare by Victor...

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The theatre is a crucible of …

The theatre is a crucible of civilization. It is a place of human communion. All its phases need to be studied. It is in the theatre that the public soul is formed.  William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo...

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God creates by …

God creates by intuition; man creates by inspiration, strengthened by observation. This second creation, which is nothing else but divine action carried out by man, is what is called “genius”. William...

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He who is not free is not a …

He who is not free is not a man; he who is not free has no sight, no knowledge, no discernment, no growth, no comprehension, no will, no faith, no love; he has no wife and children, he has only a...

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A moral lift is …

A moral lift is necessary. The life of nations, like the life of individuals, has its moments of depression; these moments pass, certainly, but no trace of them ought to remain. Man at this day, tends...

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