Marquis de Sade

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

"Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?"

"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."

"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."

"The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success."

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

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