Quinet

Famous quotes containing the word quinet:

    I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
    —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)

    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)