The man who believes he can do it is probably right. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Belief Copy Share Image
He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Greatness Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Doe Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Action Copy Share Image
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Endowment Copy Share Image
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Anvil Copy Share Image
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Action Copy Share Image
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Books Copy Share Image
A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Believe Copy Share Image
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Degrees Copy Share Image
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Art Copy Share Image
The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Attention Copy Share Image
By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Annihilate Copy Share Image
All men have an equal disposition for understanding. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Disposition Copy Share Image
There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Believe Copy Share Image
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Aversion Copy Share Image
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Fog Copy Share Image
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded — Claude Adrien Helvetius Happiness Copy Share Image
We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Belief Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of certain principles easily compensates the lack of knowledge of certain facts.” — Claude Adrien Helvétius Deduction Copy Share Image
“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” — Claude Adrien Helvetius Books Copy Share Image
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Book Copy Share Image
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Avarice Copy Share Image
Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Abandon Copy Share Image
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Book Copy Share Image
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Act Copy Share Image
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Desire Copy Share Image
Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Animated Copy Share Image
When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Avarice Copy Share Image
