Victor Cousin Quotes on Knowledge
Victor Cousin was a French philosopher and statesman and the dominant figure of academic philosophy in nineteenth-century France. This page collects quotes attributed to Victor Cousin on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Victor Cousin:
“Eclecticism is the philosophy that recognizes truth wherever it appears.”
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Attributed to Victor Cousin:
“Philosophy is the daughter of common sense and the mother of clear reasoning.”
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Attributed to Victor Cousin:
“Education is the formation of free citizens by the cultivation of universal truths.”
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“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”
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. -
“In Swami Abhedananda , India and Her People (New York: The Vedanta Society, 1906) p. 12”
India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell.