Joseph De Maistre quote: "War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out."

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of ...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

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

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

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

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by ...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, sco...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

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

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; i...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted ...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

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

Every country has the government it deserves.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature tha...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the m...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury w...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

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

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without ensl...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's e...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he ha...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire bene...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving t...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

All sciences have their mysteries and at certain points the apparently most obvious theory will be f...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the in...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

Every nation has the government it deserves
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

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

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by ...
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE

Every country has the government it deserves.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that...
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to...
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE

The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divin...
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE

When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I ca...
JOSEPH DE BEAUFORT

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.
KARL JOSEPH, PRINCE DE LIGNE

Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wiv...
CLAUDE JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE

Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the ...
VICTOR JOSEPH ÉTIENNE DE JOUY

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turn...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
JOSEPH ROUX

Justice is the truth in action.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Innocence is always unsuspicious.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
JOSEPH ROTBLAT

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th...
JOSEPH CONRAD

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. N...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
NAFISA JOSEPH

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it ...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my g...
NAFISA JOSEPH

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
NAFISA JOSEPH

I have always loved animals since I was very young.
NAFISA JOSEPH

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eye...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
NAFISA JOSEPH

Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and y...
NAFISA JOSEPH

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mis...
NAFISA JOSEPH

I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
NAFISA JOSEPH

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
NAFISA JOSEPH

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
NAFISA JOSEPH

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t...
JOSEPH ADDISON

There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.&#...
TYLER JOSEPH

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo...
JOSEPH CONRAD

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i...
JOSEPH HELLER

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned him...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can ch...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique pote...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Love is a friendship set to music.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL

I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls i...
JOSEPH BRODSKY

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON

'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Way...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON

If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
JOSEPH ROUX

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...
JOSEPH CONRAD

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.
JOSEPH PARKINSON

A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been try...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

The ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH

ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I stepped up with confidence to take the shot, and it went in. After the shot went through the net, ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

We're going to come out like we do every game playing defense and playing with a lot of confidence. ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I've been given more opportunities, and I'm just trying to step up and do big things along with Sean...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

When Sean came back in the game, he kept on scoring so all their focus was on Sean. That made me wid...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I try to learn from my mistakes. When I didn't take that 3-pointer against Florida State, I didn't h...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

I didn't think about the Florida State game anymore because I had a bad game. I don't try to dwell o...
ADRIAN JOSEPH

She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for t...
JOSEPH LANCASTER

Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beauti...
JOSEPH WAPNER

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. ...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon ...
JOSEPH HELLER

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above anothe...
JOSEPH ADDISON

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumph...
JOSEPH STOWELL

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their succe...
JOSEPH JACOBS

I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imag...
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM

We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of vi...
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM

There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
JOSEPH ADDISON

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somethi...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somet...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to produc...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the w...
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has s...
JOSEPH ADDISON

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered ...
JOSEPH HALL

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man app...
JOSEPH CONRAD

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.
JOSEPH FARRELL

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his gove...
JOSEPH STALIN

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard....
JOSEPH JOUBERT

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Myth is what we call other people's religion.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how relia...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

We live as we dream--alone....
JOSEPH CONRAD

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is n...
JOSEPH PULITZER

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD

He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fea...
JOSEPH HELLER

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk maki...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different com...
JOSEPH CONRAD

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
JOSEPH BRODSKY

I remember on one of my many visits with

I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your ow...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON

I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
JOSEPH BARTH

It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.
JOSEPH FOUCHE

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The g...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN

Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

An old Apache storyteller reminds us:

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

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