Victor Cousin Quotes on Truth
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 truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Victor Cousin:
“The true, the beautiful, and the good are the three faces of the absolute.”
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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:
“Beauty is the splendor of the true.”
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“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.”
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