Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illus…

Marquis de Sade
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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. ✨ Marquis de Sade (2016). Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand
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