Quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius

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Philosopher · French · 1715–1771

French philosopher (1715–1771)

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“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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“Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.”
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
Art Discipline Enemy

“Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.”
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
Fog Truth Is Through

“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.”
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
censorship

“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.”
— Claude Adrien Helvétius
books censorship reading

“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 Helvétius, Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education V1
books censorship press

“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.”
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
censorship