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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 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.



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Quotes for: thought


Quotes

Quotes about thought:


Great thoughts come from the heart.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.





Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.





Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.











Quotes for: architecture


Quotes

Quotes about architecture:


Architecture in general is frozen music.





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.





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





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





I call architecture frozen music.





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











Quotes for: idea


Quotes

Quotes about idea:


Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.





The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.





If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
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There is something real in ideas, through which the true are distinguished from the false.





An idea is a meteor.





Where does this idea come from? It is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off.











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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