True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
"Victor Cousin" was a French philosopher. He was a proponent of Scottish Common Sense Realism and had an important influence on French educational policy.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous philosophers! More Victor Cousin on Wikipedia.Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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.
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.
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