Claude Adrien Helvétius (/hɛlˈviːʃəs/; French: [ɛlvesjys]; 26 January or 26 February 1715 (sources differ) – 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur. Read full biography of Claude Adrien Helvetius →
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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.
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... →
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvétius (/hɛlˈviːʃəs/; French: [ɛlvesjys]; 26 January or 26 February 1715 (sources differ) – 26 December 1771) was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur.