"He who has no passion has no principal…" — Claude Adrien Helvetius

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

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

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22 Quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius

Claude Adrien Helvetius has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants…
A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he…
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and…
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for…
The man who believes he can do it is probably right.
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not…
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers…
By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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