Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius 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 Christ, we… — Claude Adrien Helvetius 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 which, rescuing… — Claude Adrien Helvetius 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 either fools… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have. — Claude Adrien Helvetius 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 act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
