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Joseph de Maistre

Joseph de Maistre

French Diplomat

Born: Apr 1, 1753

Died: Feb 26, 1821

Every Faith God Man Power Without

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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. Joseph de Maistre

People Money Crime Men First Guilty Struck Like Knowing First Of All Without Opinions Doing Perpetuate False Who Thereafter Honest Honest People

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. Joseph de Maistre

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. Joseph de Maistre

Constitution Made All Nations None Nations

Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself. Joseph de Maistre

Truth Man Speak Will Local Onto He Over Well Always Covered Errors Itself May Show Universal Loaded

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. Joseph de Maistre

Art Philosophy Objections Without Ignoring

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. Joseph de Maistre

Evil Earth Moral Would Would-Be Moral Evil Physical

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. Joseph de Maistre

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. Joseph de Maistre

Plant Power Single Unknown Recognize Would Some Toward Force End Moves Which Creates Useful Rejects Harm

Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion. Joseph de Maistre

Man Genius Grace True True Man Movement Acts

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. Joseph de Maistre

Man Enough Respectable Like Know Make Scoundrel Flesh Creep

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. Joseph de Maistre

Good Evil Sense Nothing Everything Philosophy Proper Tainted Since Real Very Modern Real Sense Taught Whereas Polluted Place Which Us

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. Joseph de Maistre

Man Every Evident Marks Degradation More More Or Less Bears Spite Divine True Always His Less Origin Belief Universal Fatal

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