"We don't call a man mad who believes……" — Claude Adrien Helvetius
"We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ"
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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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By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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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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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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