“True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes w...” — Victor Cousin Quote

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.