The Quotes of Victor Hugo

Born: 2/26/1802 12:00:00 AM Died: 5/22/1885 12:00:00 AM

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of the free wandering life is an enchantment.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. 

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

The reduction of the Universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

From remotest antiquity, the human race has employed architecture as its chief means of writing.

 God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

To love another person, is to see the face of God.

Freemasonry, as a tradition, is built on the spoken word. It is a mystic tradition that has been passed down from lip to hear across the centuries. It acknowledges the power of language to transform the mind of the individual and even the course of history itself. Throughout history, great changes in civilizations and the rise and fall of empires have depended on a few words, spoken into the right ear at the right time. Freemasonry places great importance on remembering the thoughts of our ancestors. It is from these thoughts that we can learn how to navigate the maze of life and avoid the pitfalls that have entrapped the unfortunate. The Masons below have all contributed to the wisdom of the world and we have selected a small portion of their knowledge to be shared here to inspire, uplift and educate.