Quotes of Joseph De Maistre

“ A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. ”

- Joseph De Maistre

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“ Every country has the government it deserves. ”

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Philosophy

“ Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. ”

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Philosophy

“ I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible. ”

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Philosophy

“ War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out. ”

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Philosophy

“ In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die and how many are killed; but, from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly in the most dreadful evidence. A Power, a violence, at once hidden and palpable. . . has in each species appointed a certain number of animals to devour the others. . . And who [in this general carnage] exterminates him who will exterminate all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man. . . The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death. ”

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Death

“ War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it… ”

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Rule

“ Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led… ”

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Rule

“ If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. ”

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Bodily

“ Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led… ”

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Brute

“ Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led… ”

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Brute

“ Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. ”

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Comprehensive

“ In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. ”

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Conventional

“ The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death. ”

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Consummation

“ A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. ”

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Constitution

“ It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ”

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Curious

“ False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. ”

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Circulate

“ A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. ”

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Composition

“ We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. ”

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Chain

“ In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. ”

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Confined

“ In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. ”

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Creature

“ I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. ”

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Creep

“ Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. ”

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Civilization

“ To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. ”

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Delay

“ It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ”

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Difficulty

“ There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. ”

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Disapproval

“ Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. ”

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Devout

“ I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible. ”

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Dreadful

“ War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it… ”

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Divine

“ Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ”

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Despotism

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“ A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. ”

“ Every country has the government it deserves. ”

“ Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. ”

“ I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible. ”

“ War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it… ”

“ Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led… ”

“ If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. ”

“ Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led… ”

“ Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led… ”

“ Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. ”

“ In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. ”

“ The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death. ”

“ A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. ”

“ It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ”

“ False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. ”

“ A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. ”

“ We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. ”

“ In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. ”

“ In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. ”

“ I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. ”

“ Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. ”

“ To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. ”

“ It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ”

“ There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. ”

“ Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. ”

“ I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible. ”

“ War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it… ”

“ Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ”