Edgar Quinet quotes
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
What we share with another ceases to be our own.