All Claude Adrien Helvetius Quotes
- 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… Book
- A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call… Believe
- Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. Art
- Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. Act
- Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. Always Repulsed
- Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving… Abandon
- 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… Desire
- The man who believes he can do it is probably right. Believe
- What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded Founded
- Genius is nothing but continued attention. Attention
- 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… Animated
- By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind. Annihilate
- Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be. Action
- Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living. Dead
- Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it. Dispel
- He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act. Act
- There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart. Believe
- Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men… All
- Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. Dispelling
- By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. Act
- Education made us what we are Education
- We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ Belief