Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
- Edgar Quinet
New, Still, Sooner, Orthodoxy
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
- Edgar Quinet
Infinitely, Condemns, Depth
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
Past, Law, Within, Possesses
What we share with another ceases to be our own.
- Edgar Quinet
Own, Share, Another, Ceases
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
- Edgar Quinet
People, Secret, Whole, Enter
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
- Edgar Quinet
Education, Mind, Effeminate, Weakens
Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
- Edgar Quinet
Time, Judge, Fairest, Toughest
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