- Men
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Joseph De Maistre Quotes
Most Famous Joseph De Maistre Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best joseph-de-maistre quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Joseph De Maistre Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Deserves
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Every country has the government it deserves.
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
- Discontented
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Every Day
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
- Fortress
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
- Difficulties
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
- Faith
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.
- God
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.
- Doubt
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.
- Plant
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end, which appropriates what is useful to it and rejects that which would harm it.
- Evident
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.
- May
- |
- Nov 07, 2020