Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilli… - Victor Hugo

" "
Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Victor Hugo

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, widely esteemed as one of the greatest of French writers and poets.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Victor Marie Hugo • Homme océan • Ocean Man • Victor-Marie Hugo

All quotes from Victor Hugo Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Victor Hugo:

Honoré de Balzac E. M. Forster Charles Dickens George Eliot Nathaniel Hawthorne

Additional quotes by Victor Hugo

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. Th… - Victor Hugo

About Victor Hugo

Also Known As

Go Premium

Additional quotes by Victor Hugo

Go Premium