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Joseph de Maistre

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


— Joseph de Maistre


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


— Joseph de Maistre


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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.


— Joseph de Maistre


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There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.


— Joseph de Maistre


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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


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Did you know about Joseph de Maistre?

His diplomatic responsibilities were few and he became a well-loved fixture in aristocratic circles converting some of his friends to Roman Catholicism and writing his most influential works on political philosophy.

Joseph-Marie comte de Maistre (French pronunciation: ​[də mɛstʁ] 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher writer lawyer and diplomat. Maistre a key figure of the Counter-Enlightenment saw monarchy both as a divinely sanctioned institution and as the only stable form of government. He called for the restoration of the House of Bourbon to the throne of France and argued that the Pope should have ultimate authority in temporal matters.

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