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Victor Cousin
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“Il faut de la religion pour la religion, de la morale pour la morale, comme de l'art pour l'art...le beau ne peut être la voie ni de l'utile, ni du bien, ni du saint; il ne conduit qu'à lui-même.”
Victor Cousin (1792–1867) first seen 1818 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Du Vrai, du beau, et du bien (Sorbonne lecture, 1818); Cours de philosophie professé à la faculté des lettres pendant l'année 1818 (Paris, 1836) pp. 224–25
“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East-above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe-we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”
Victor Cousin (1792–1867) first seen 1825 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cours de l'histoire de la philosophie (1825–40), as translated by O. W. Wright, Course of the History of Modern Philosophy (New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1860) vol. 1, lecture 2
“India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell.”
Victor Cousin (1792–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Swami Abhedananda, India and Her People (New York: The Vedanta Society, 1906) p. 12