Adrien Helvetius Quotes

#1. Charles checked on his two snitches among the subversives. There were bascially two subversive groups in Blue Eye -Communists and Republicans, - and Charles confirmed quickly that neither had any revolutions planned

Stephen Hunter

#2. Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#3. Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

Itzhak Perlman

#4. Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#5. The man who believes he can do it is probably right.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#6. Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#7. Don't be limited by your limitations.

Sharon Law Tucker

#8. A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#9. The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#10. To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#11. I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Jimmy Swaggart

#12. No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#13. I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

Tony Curtis

#14. The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#15. Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#16. Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

Ashley Scott

#17. I don't know what she's thinking, but I'm thinking how fluid the border is between crazy and interesting, and how hard it is to decide who belongs where.

Melissa DeCarlo

#18. All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

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

Claude Adrien Helvetius

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

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#21. Education made us what we are.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#22. By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#23. I don't really go back over my old shows, but I'll see them occasionally, mostly I want to go back and change things about the character as I look at them.

Dustin Diamond

#24. 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.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#25. Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

Albert Camus

#26. 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.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#27. The best way to make dream come true is to wake up.

Anna Wintour

#28. Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

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

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#30. I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

James Boswell

#31. Marina Singh: "You went to Radcliffe."
Annick Swenson: "I didn't love it.

Ann Patchett

#32. Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

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

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#34. I find all that slightly destructive but mad love alluring.

Sienna Miller

#35. Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#36. There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#37. What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#38. For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach, and going, "I don't have to audition today. I've got a little respite here."

Robert Knepper

#39. He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Claude Adrien Helvetius