Quinet

Famous quotes containing the word quinet:

    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.
    —Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)

    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.
    —Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)

    What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
    —Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)