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«Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
Beyond the Limits, first instance, futility, grasp, grasps, human mind, illusion, instance, limits, mad, The Second
«All universal moral principles are idle fancies.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
fancied, fancies, fancying, idle, idled, idling, moral, moral principle, principles, universal, Universals
«My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!»
«There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
almost, deceive, dependable, feign, feigning, impressions, livelier, lively, no more, pain and pleasure, perpetually, sensation, The Impressions, The Pleasure
«Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
connections, immediate, subsist, subsists, The Connection
«''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
allow, appetite, drinking, eating, false, in restraint, modesty, ought, restraint, satisfied, with modesty
«Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
anarchy, centuries, compare, inhibit, inhibited, inhibiting, inhibits, Laws, legalism, passions, strongest, The Anarchy, The Passions
«'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| About:
Death and dying,
Judgement
| Keywords:
abolition, demand, infallibility, penalties, penalty, proved, Til, til now
«Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!»
«They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
bothering, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, flame, lights, passions, philosophy, The Passions, torch, torches
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