Quote by Victor Hugo
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. - Victor Hugo

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. – Victor Hugo

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God
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. – Victor Hugo

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good
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. – Victor Hugo

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Art
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A mediocre idea that guarantees enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. – Mary Kay Ash

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Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money. – Owen Laughlin

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have. – Henri Alban-Fournier

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Ideas

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – Francis Bacon

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It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear… – Rutherford B. Hayes

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Thats a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals. – Peter Singer

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. – B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969

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Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together. – Maharaj Charan Singh Ji

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