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Claude Adrien Helvetius Quotes
«We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ»
Author: Claude Adrien Helvetius
(Philosopher)
| About:
Belief,
Catholicism,
God,
Religion
| Keywords:
eats, Jesus Christ
«Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.»
Author: Claude Adrien Helvetius
(Philosopher)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
dispelling, fog, fogs, gleamed, gleaming, gleams, The Fog, torch, torches
«By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. 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.»
«The man who believes he can do it is probably right»
Author: Claude Adrien Helvetius
(Philosopher)
«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»
Author: Claude Adrien Helvetius
(Philosopher)