35 Quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

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 slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

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 knaves.

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

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 in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

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

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.