Joseph De Maistre: Man

Joseph De Maistre was Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“It is permitted to modern philosophy, all swollen up with Bacon's venom, to repeat to us to satiety, to disgust, to nausea, that we make God similar to man; we will reply as many times that is not quite the same thing to say that a man resembles his portrait or that his portrait resembles him.”

Joseph De Maistre

"Bacon's Religion," p. 293
An Examination of the Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1836)

God , Time

“A woman can only be superior as a woman; as soon as she wants to emulate man, she is nothing but an ape.”

Joseph De Maistre

Letter to his daughter Constance de Maistre, Lettres, 146
Letters

“There is a great analogy between grace and genius, for genius is a grace. The real man of genius is the one who acts by grace or by impulsion, without ever contemplating himself and without ever saying to himself: Yes! It is by grace that I act.”

Joseph De Maistre

"Of Experiment and of the Genius of Discoveries," p. 37
An Examination of the Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1836)