Marquis De Condorcet Famous Quotes

Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. ~ Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. ~ Marquis De Condorcet

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. ~ Marquis De Condorcet

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. ~ Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it. ~ Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man ~ Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough. ~ Marquis De Condorcet

One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock ... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time. ~ Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum. ~ Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

The time will . . . come when the sun will shine only on free men who know no other master but their reason. ~ Nicolas De Condorcet

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration. ~ Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. ~ Marquis De Sade

Those who are unhappy
clutch at shadows, and to
give themselves an enjoyment
that truth refuses them, they
artfully bring into being all
sorts of illusions. ~ Marquis De Sade

I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

life is a bitch so enjoy it ;p ~ Marquis De Sade

It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure ~ Marquis De Sade

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto. ~ Marquis De Sade

It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain. ~ Marquis De Sade

Religions are the cradles of despotism. ~ Marquis De Sade

The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know. ~ Marquis De Sade

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. ~ Marquis De Sade

A little less vice is virtuousness in a very vicious heart ~ Marquis De Sade

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it. ~ Marquis De Sade

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. ~ Marquis De Sade

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. ~ Marquis De Sade

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all; ~ Marquis De Sade

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others. ~ Marquis De Sade

We monsters are necessary to nature also. ~ Marquis De Sade

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior? ~ Marquis De Sade

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply. ~ Marquis De Sade

Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue. ~ Marquis De Sade

What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do. ~ Marquis De Sade

Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff? ~ Marquis De Sade

Women are not made for one single man; 'tis for men at large Nature created them. ~ Marquis De Sade

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect. ~ Marquis De Sade

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared. ~ Marquis De Sade

Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Religion is no more national than conscience. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me. ~ Marquis De Sade

To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them. ~ Marquis De Sade

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength. ~ Marquis De Sade

It has been estimated that more than 50 million individuals have lost their lives to wars and religious massacres. Is there even one among them worth the blood of a single bird? ~ Marquis De Sade

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. ~ Marquis De Sade

That tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals ... ~ Marquis De Sade

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary! ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? ~ Marquis De Custine

I suggest somewhere that anyone who wishes to write and has no aptitude for it would be better off making shoes for ladies and boots for men. ~ Marquis De Sade

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

I want to be the victim of his errors. ~ Marquis De Sade

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. ~ Marquis De Sade

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. ~ Marquis De Sade

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. ~ Marquis De Sade

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. ~ Marquis De Custine

You have no idea, my friend, of the effect of a young woman's tears on all these weak and timid souls. ~ Marquis De Sade

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. ~ Marquis De Sade

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. ~ Marquis De Sade

There is no rational commensuration between what affects us and what affects others; the first we sense physically, the other only touches us morally. ~ Marquis De Sade

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime. ~ Marquis De Sade

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. ~ Marquis De Sade

It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may succeed in sowing a few roses on the thorns of life. ~ Marquis De Sade

In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. ~ Marquis De Sade

Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later. ~ Marquis De Sade

In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do. ~ Marquis De Sade

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. ~ Marquis De Sade

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. ~ Marquis De Sade

Oh! What an enigma is man!" exclaimed the Duke. "Yes, my friend," said Curval. "That is why a certain very intelligent gentleman once said it was better to fuck him than to understand him. ~ Marquis De Sade

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

Remorse! Can a heart like mine ever know the meaning of such a feeling? The habit of evildoing expunged it long ago from my calloused soul. ~ Marquis De Sade

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel. ~ Marquis De Sade

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. ~ Marquis De Sade

What is more immoral than war? ~ Marquis De Sade

Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul; but is love an illness to be cured? All I endeavored to oppose to it merely fanned its flames. ~ Marquis De Sade

He, being hacked and cut for three solid quarters of an hour by the vigorous hands that had taken charge of his education, was soon nothing but a single wound, from which blood spurted out on all sides. ~ Marquis De Sade

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy ... Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. ~ Marquis De Sade

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! ~ Marquis De Sade

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. ~ Marquis De Sade

Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood. ~ Marquis De Sade

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! ~ Marquis De Sade

Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. ~ Marquis De Sade

Crime causes so much horror, even to them [criminals], that they would like, in order to escape from the necessity they feel to be bad, to be believed and always to be depicted as virtuous. ~ Marquis De Sade

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice! ~ Marquis De Sade

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

The Spaniards are slow in their motions but strong in their attachments. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens. ~ Marquis De Lafayette

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ~ Marquis De Sade

The past encourages me, the present electrifies me, and I have little fear for the future; and my hope is that the rest of my life shall by far surpass the extravagances of my youth. ~ Marquis De Sade

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. ~ Marquis De Sade

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. ~ Marquis De Sade

But if it be true, as every prospect assures us, that the human race shall not again relapse into its ancient barbarity; if every thing ought to assure us against that pusillanimous and corrupt system which condemns man to eternal oscillations between truth and falsehood, liberty and servitude, we must, at the same time, perceive that the light of information is spread over a small part only of our globe; and the number of those who possess real instruction, seems to vanish in the comparison with the mass of men consigned over to ignorance and prejudice. We behold vast countries groaning under slavery, and presenting nations in one place, degraded by the vices of civilization, so corrupt as to impede the progress of man; and in others, still vegetating in the infancy of its early age. We perceive that the exertions of these last ages have done much for the progress of the human mind, but little for the perfection of the human species; much for the glory of man, somewhat for his liberty, but scarcely any thing yet for his happiness. In a few directions, our eyes are struck with a dazzling light; but thick darkness still covers an immense horison. ~ Nicolas De Condorcet

May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate the blessings of their government, and for ages to come rejoice the departed souls of their founders! ~ Marquis De Lafayette