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Biography - Victor Hugo:

French writer, poet and dramatist.
Born: 1802 - Died: 1885
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Architecture is the great book of humanity, the principal expression of man in his different stages of development, either as a force or as an intelligence.


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Quote source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Wikisource - Hugo - Œuvres complètes, Impr. nat. (fr) 



Architecture is the great book of humanity, the principal expression of man in his different stages of development, either as a force or as an intelligence.

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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
L'architecture est le grand livre de l'humanité, l'expression principale de l'homme à ses divers états de développement, soit comme force, soit comme intelligence.

German
Die Architektur ist das große Buch der Menschheit, der hauptsächliche Ausdruck des Menschen von verschiedenen Entwicklungsständen, entweder als Kraft oder als Intelligenz.




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Thus, down to the time of Gutenberg, architecture is the principal writing, the universal writing.




Quotes for: strength


Quotes

Quotes about strength:


Consciousness of our powers augments them.





I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.





On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.





...and nobody knows the extent of his strength until he has tried.





There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.





Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.











Quotes for: architecture


Quotes

Quotes about architecture:


Architecture in general is frozen music.





The mood which emanates from architecture comes close to the effect of music.





Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.





I call architecture frozen music.





The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.





The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.











Quotes for: intelligence


Quotes

Quotes about intelligence:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.











Quotes for: Human nature


Quotes

Quotes about human nature:


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.





Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.





I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.





Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.





Be humanity evermore our goal.











Quotes for: book


Quotes

Quotes for: book


The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.





The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.





Few people ask from books what books can give us.





Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.





Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book.











Quotes

Victor Hugo also said...


Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.





Hide your life and spread your spirit.





Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.





How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.





Music is noise that thinks.












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