Press Insult Quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

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

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

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

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

The man who believes he can do it is probably right.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

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

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius