Claude Adrien Helvetius Quotes

"Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil."
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
(Related: Effect)

"By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
(Related: Action, Man, Mind, Motive)

"Genius is nothing but continued attention."
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
(Related: Genius, Attention, Nothing)

"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
(Related: Art, Fear, Discipline, Enemy, Soldiers)