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Louis de Bonald Quotes on Knowledge

Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald, was a French traditionalist philosopher and statesman and, with Joseph de Maistre, one of the principal theorists of the post-revolutionary Catholic reaction. This page collects quotes attributed to Louis de Bonald on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Louis de Bonald:

    “Language is given to humanity, not invented by it.”

  • “A nobleman is not only a subject, he is the most subordinate of all.”

    Quoted by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 330
  • “Quoted by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 330”

    A nobleman is not only a subject, he is the most subordinate of all.
  • “In the social body as in every organized body — that is, one in which the parts are arranged in certain relationships to each other relative to a given end — the cessation of vital functions does not come from the annihilation of their parts, but from their displacement and the disturbances of their relationships.”

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