Chateaubriand Quotes

“A man may understand the power of a king without being a king himself; but he cannot understand the divinity without being God”
― François-René de Chateaubriand

“Travels are one of the sources of history: by the narratives of travelers the history of foreign nations is placed beside the particular history of each country," wrote François-René de Chateaubriand in the preface to his Travels in America (1836)”
― Sabine Arque, The Grand Tour: The Golden Age of Travel

“if man is a mere mass of matter, there is in reality neither vice nor virtue, and of course morality is a mere sham

dacă omul este o simplă masă de materie, în realitate nu există nici viciu, nici virtute și, desigur, moralitatea este o simplă farsă”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion

“chance could not have formed the world, because there could have been but one single favorable chance against innumerable impossibilities

șansa nu ar fi putut forma lumea, deoarece nu ar fi putut exista decât o singură șansă favorabilă împotriva nenumăratelor imposibilități”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion