Philosophy Quote by Marquis de Sade — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”

“Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.”

“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”

“He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.”

“To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.”

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

“There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.”

“when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences.”

“In a free economy, change tends to be evolutionary. In a government-controlled economy, change tends to be revolutionary.”