Joseph De Maistre quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Joseph De Maistre

Joseph De Maistre Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Joseph De Maistre on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

What a miserable world!
trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

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

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

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

Nothing great has great beginnings.

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.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

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

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

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.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

Every nation has the government it deserves

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

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.