Author: Joseph de Maistre

Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

- Joseph de Maistre

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.

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

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

- Joseph de Maistre

Every country has the government it deserves.

Every country has the government it deserves.

- Joseph de Maistre

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