“Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.”
Quotes by Xavier de Maistre
“After all, is there any person so unhappy, so abandoned, that he doesn’t have a little den into which he can withdraw and hide away from everyone? Nothing more elaborate is needed for the journey.”
“I have come to the conclusion, by way of various observations, that man is composed of a soul and a beast. These two beings are absolutely distinct, but closely fitted together, or one on top of the other, that the soul must have a certain superiority over the beast to be in a position to draw a distinction between them.”
Xavier de MaistreXavier de Maistre was a French author and military officer known for his imaginative and introspective works. Born into an aristocratic family in Chambéry, Savoy, he was the younger brother of the inf...