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)

    It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
    —Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)

    I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
    —Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)