An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
– Edgar Quinet
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
– 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
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
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?