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Marquis de Sade, born on June 2, 1740, and died on December 2, 1814, was a prominent French philosopher and writer of the 18th century. He is known for his profound reflections on freedom, morality, and human behavior.

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Famous Marquis de Sade Quotes

“La imaginación es el aguijón de los placeres; en los de esta especie, lo regula todo, es el móvil de todo; ahora bien, ¿no se goza por ella? ¿No es de ella de la que proceden las voluptuosidades más excitantes?”

Imagination Pleasure

Book:Philosophy in the Boudoir

Source: Philosophy in the Boudoir

“The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice suffices to cool off the imagination. This whimsical part of the mind is so unbridled as to be uncontrollable. Its greatest triumphs, its most eminent delights consist in smashing all the restraints that oppose it. Imagination is the enemy of all norms, the idolater of all disorder and of all that bears the color of crime.”

Imagination Freedom Tradition Intellect Freedom Of Thought Social Norms Custom

Book:Philosophy in the Boudoir

Source: Philosophy in the Boudoir

“It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.”

Giving Imagination Simple Pleasure Beauty Doubt Horror Extraordinary No Doubt Proven Exceptional Ugliness Simple Things Fiery Extraordinary Things Nastiness

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.”

Men Imagination Pleasure Senses Serving Aspire Whim Felicity

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.”

Happiness Imagination Ideals Vivid Imagination Wild Imagination

Book:The Crimes of Love: 3 Novellas

Source: The Crimes of Love: 3 Novellas

“The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?”

Knows Mean Joy Literature Imagination Pleasure Depends Delight Arise My Imagination Spurs Kinky

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”

Literature Imagination Fiction

Book:Juliette

Source: Juliette

“Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.”

Thinking Men Humans Mean Persons Facts Lying Loses Imagination Sight Fortunate Heed Felicity Caprice

Book:Juliette

Source: Juliette

“How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.”

World Mean Whole Moments Turns Imagination Pleasure Crime Objects Horror Creatures Whole World Delightful Delectable

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace”

Imagination Simple Ordinary Extraordinary Spheres Ugliness Commonplace Ardent

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.”

Imagination Atheism Extremes Positive Atheism Take Me Kill Me Fanaticism Atheistic Take Me As I Am

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.”

Way Feelings Imagination Seeing Products Depends Moved Abstraction

Book:Eugénie de Franval

Source: Eugénie de Franval

“Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?”

Imagination Pleasure Arise My Imagination

Author:Marquis de Sade

About the Author

Born: June 2, 1740
Died: December 2, 1814
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 233

Books & Sources

The 120 days of Sodom and other writingsRelated source material

Philosophy in the BoudoirRelated source material

The 120 Days of SodomRelated source material

JulietteRelated source material

Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic NovelRelated source material

The Crimes of LoveRelated source material

The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early TalesRelated source material

BetrayalRelated source material

Gothic Tales of the Marquis de SadeRelated source material

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