Quote: By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Genius is nothing but continued attention. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: The happiness of people is to love to do what they should do. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your
right to say it. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose
begins. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Genius is nothing but continued attention. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This fear has often the effect of courage: but it cannot prevail against the fierce and obstinate valor of people animated by fanaticism, or warm love of their country. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind. [Claude Helvetius]
Quote: He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act. [Claude Helvetius]