Victor Cousin was a French philosopher, mathematician, and historian of mathematics whose work influenced Pierre-Simon Laplace, René Descartes, Pierre Varignon, Blaise Pascal, Guillaume de L'Hopital, and many others. Born in Paris on March 6, 1792, he died in Lausanne on September 19, 1867. Cousin is considered one of the founders of the philosophy of science along with Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill. He was also one of the first to use the term “Empiricism” in its modern sense.
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.Victor Cousin
Art for art's sake.Victor Cousin
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.Victor Cousin
