Maistre

Famous quotes containing the word maistre:

    Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.... He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
    —Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

    Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
    —Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

    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 (1753–1821)