Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Religions are the cradles of despotism.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: '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!' Read More Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Denis Diderot: 'Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Religions are the cradles of despotism.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: '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!' Read More
Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Quote Meanings 2 11/14/23 Marquis de Sade: 'Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.' Read More