Victor Cousin quotes

Victor Cousin was a French philosopher and educator, renowned for his influence on 19th-century philosophy and educational reform. His doctrine of "eclecticism" sought to integrate diverse philosophical traditions. He helped shape modern French education and inspired philosophers across Europe. Here are 6 of his quotes:

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. (Victor Cousin)

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Victor Cousin

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

Victor Cousin

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

Victor Cousin

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

Victor Cousin

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

Victor Cousin

Victor Cousin

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Occupation: French Philosopher
Born: November 28, 1792
Died: January 13, 1867
Quotes count: 6
Wikipedia: Victor Cousin

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