Victor Cousin
Victor Cousin
Victor Cousinwas a French philosopher. He was the founder of "eclecticism," a briefly influential school of French philosophy that combined elements of German idealism and Scottish Common Sense Realism. As the administrator of public instruction for over a decade, Cousin also had an important influence on French educational policy...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 November 1792
CountryFrance
Victor Cousin quotes about
cousin war home
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.
cousin philosophy
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
cousin ignorance vices
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
leadership men exception
You can only govern men by serving them.