Quotes about Perception
He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.
— Victor Hugo
Blind is he who will not see!
— Victor Hugo
He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope. He said:— Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven.
— Victor Hugo
Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. During this journey in 1825
— Victor Hugo
In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.
— Victor Hugo
One speaks to one's self, talks to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because they are not visible and palpable.
— Victor Hugo
True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as what they do.
— Victor Hugo
God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent
— Victor Hugo
A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.
— Victor Hugo
It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.
— Victor Hugo
God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.
— Victor Hugo
had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.
— Victor Hugo