"By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind." — Claude Adrien Helvetius
"By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind."
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Claude Adrien Helvetius
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22 Quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius
Claude Adrien Helvetius has 22 quotes on this site.
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants…
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A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he…
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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
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Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and…
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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for…
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The man who believes he can do it is probably right.
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What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not…
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Genius is nothing but continued attention.
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Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers…
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Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
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More Annihilate Quotes
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Stimulate don't Annihilate.
— Lee Haney
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army…
— Alfred Nobel
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What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be…
— Maria Montessori
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But…
— Kenneth Roberts
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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were…
— Tom Hanks
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If you aren’t hearing your inner voice, it could mean you’re overburdened or not stimulated enough, or that you’ve learned…
— Kelly Cutrone
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral…
— Frederick Douglass
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