Art Quote by Joseph de Maistre

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature…

— Joseph de Maistre

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

— Joseph de Maistre

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

— Joseph de Maistre

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect…

— Joseph de Maistre

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

— Joseph de Maistre

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs…

— Joseph de Maistre

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not.…

— Joseph de Maistre

A child is an angel dependent on man

— Joseph de Maistre

“Thus is worked out, from maggots up to man, the universal law of the violent destruction of living beings. The whole earth, continually steeped…

— Joseph de Maistre

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

— Joseph de Maistre

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen…

— Joseph de Maistre

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm,…

— Joseph de Maistre