Claude Adrien Helvetius's Quotes

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

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.

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

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.