Quotes by Joseph de Maistre

Joseph de Maistre

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

Constitution

Made

Nations

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Love

Pain

Punishment

Every country has the government it deserves.

Country

Freedom

Government

Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought, distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do not bear examination.

Giving

Men

Views

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.

Heart

May

Men

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.

Arms

Kingdoms

Reign

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.

Mean

Men

Perfection

It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.

Men

Rights

Wish

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

Creativity

Gambling

Men

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.

Love

Men

Power

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Altars

Arms

Art

Civilization

Constitution

Country

Creativity

Death

Desire

Divine Guidance

Eye

Faults

Found

Freedom

Gambling

Giving

God

Government

Heart

Kingdoms

Life

Love

Made

Math

May

Mean

Men

Miserable

Moving

Nations

Nature

Numbers

Pain

Perfection

Philosopher

Philosophy

Power

Punishment

Real

Reign

Rights

Sacrifice

Taught Us

Thrones

Ties

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Wish

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Quotes by Joseph de Maistre

Joseph de Maistre

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

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Every country has the government it deserves.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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