Joseph de Maistre
(1 Apr 1753 - 26 Feb 1821)
French philosopher.
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Science Quotes by Joseph de Maistre (3 quotes)
All power, all subordination rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world, and the very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple, and society disappears
— Joseph de Maistre
In Joseph de Maistre and Richard A. Lebrun (trans.), The St. Petersburg Dialogues (1993), 20.
How can we be so willfully blind as to look for causes in nature when nature herself is an effect?
— Joseph de Maistre
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.
— Joseph de Maistre
Epigraph, without citation, in Corrective and Social Psychiatry and Journal of Behavior Technology Methods and Therapy (1966), Vol. 12, 409.