Louis de Bonald

Quotes

• “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.”
• “Marriage is therefore not an ordinary contract, since in terminating it, the two parties cannot return themselves to the same state they were in before entering into it. And if the contract is voluntary at the time it is entered into, it can no longer be voluntary, and almost never is, at the time of its termination, since the party which manifests the desire to dissolve it takes all liberty from the other party to refuse, and has only too many means to force its consent.”

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Key facts

Born

Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald , ( 1754-10-02 ) 2 October 1754, Le Monna, Millau , Rouergue (now Aveyron ), Kingdom of France

Died

23 November 1840 (1840-11-23) (aged 86), Le Monna, Kingdom of France

Era

18th-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Conservatism Counter-Enlightenment Ultramontanism Traditionalism Ultra-royalists

Main interests

Political philosophy

Notable ideas

Divine origin of language Social fact

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Image

Louis de Bonald (Louis Hersent).jpg

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