"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists." — Joseph de Maistre
"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists."
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Joseph de Maistre
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32 Quotes by Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre has 32 quotes on this site.
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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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Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
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More Altar Quotes
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one of 235 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
— Aeschylus
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
— John Ruskin
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so…
— Kurt Cobain
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for…
— Winston Churchill
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