"There is no man who desires as passionately……" — Joseph de Maistre
"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."
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Joseph de Maistre
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32 Quotes by Joseph de Maistre
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences…
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only…
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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and…
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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has…
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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart…
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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
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Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.
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