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Claude Arien Helvetius

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Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
CLAUDE ARIEN HELVETIUS The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
CLAUDE ARIEN HELVETIUS He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
CLAUDE A. HELVETIUS Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.
CLAUDE A. HELVETIUS By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no p...
CLAUDE A. HELVETIUS Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
CLAUDE A. HELVETIUS We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no p...
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
CLAUDE A HELVETIUS Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.
CLAUDE A. HELVETIUS Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS Genius is nothing but continued attention.
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS To limit the press is to insult a nation ; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the in...
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS The man who believes he can do it is probably right
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same l...
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS Education made us what we are
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inh...
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same l...
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no ...
CLAUD-ADRIAN HELVETIUS The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing bree...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. ...
ALBERT CLAUDE It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and ...
ALBERT CLAUDE Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, ...
ALBERT CLAUDE For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest per...
ALBERT CLAUDE For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and th...
ALBERT CLAUDE For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorph...
ALBERT CLAUDE But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to...
ALBERT CLAUDE As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason,...
ALBERT CLAUDE Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is o...
CLAUDE TAYLOR Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed a...
CLAUDE MCKAY Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.
CLAUDE MERMET A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age,...
CLAUDE PEPPER Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their ta...
CLAUDE PEPPER The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've b...
CLAUDE PEPPER Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
CLAUDE BERNARD Collect impressions. Don
CLAUDE DEBUSSY There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And bec...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Music is the space between the notes.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
CLAUDE PEPPER The right name is an advertisement in itself.
CLAUDE HOPKINS It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
CLAUDE BERNARD A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which...
CLAUDE BERNARD Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myse...
CLAUDE MONET A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my a...
CLAUDE PEPPER People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's sim...
CLAUDE MONET For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
CLAUDE BROWN For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all ho...
CLAUDE MONET There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautifu...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that ...
CLAUDE MONET Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.
ALBERT CLAUDE Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or a...
ALBERT CLAUDE I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the ma...
CLAUDE SHANNON Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
CLAUDE SHANNON My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
CLAUDE MONET I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out...
CLAUDE MONET I will do water - beautiful, blue water.
CLAUDE MONET I am working, but when one has ceased to do seascape, it is the devil afterward - very difficult; it...
CLAUDE MONET Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats...
CLAUDE MONET I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint her...
CLAUDE MONET I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying...
CLAUDE MONET Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the oute...
CLAUDE MONET It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether ...
CLAUDE MONET I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to p...
CLAUDE MONET I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and ...
CLAUDE MONET My life has been nothing but a failure.
CLAUDE MONET I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.
CLAUDE MONET People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's...
CLAUDE MONET I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
CLAUDE MONET Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
CLAUDE MONET I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flow...
CLAUDE MONET Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
CLAUDE MONET No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his...
CLAUDE MONET Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, do...
CLAUDE VORILHON Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
CLAUDE PEPPER This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experi...
ALBERT CLAUDE A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
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CLAUDE MONET Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think...
CLAUDE MONET The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There i...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.
CLAUDE VORILHON Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.
CLAUDE MONET My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
CLAUDE MONET I must have flowers, always, and always.
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CLAUDE MCKAY My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I ...
CLAUDE NICOLLIER Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they&...
CLAUDE PEPPER I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough ...
CLAUDE MONET Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the...
CLAUDE MONET Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday even...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing ...
CLAUDE CHABROL How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals...
CLAUDE BRISTOL The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes i...
CLAUDE BRISTOL It was the most difficult day for me in my life.
CLAUDE ALLEN They are consumed very quickly at the first of the year, and we need to look at increasing that.
CLAUDE ALLEN ...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there a...
CLAUDE ALLEN We are making changes that will increase the opportunity.
CLAUDE ALLEN I cannot name any programs that will be cut. In fact, we did not focus on that.
CLAUDE ALLEN The administration believes it's in the best interest at this time to ban both research as well as r...
CLAUDE ALLEN The safety net is tight and strong.
CLAUDE ALLEN Frankly, the president has not been satisfied. None of us have been satisfied.
CLAUDE ALLEN Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
CLAUDE BERNARD To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Fi...
CLAUDE SIMON I am following Nature without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having become a painter ...
CLAUDE MONET We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
CLAUDE BERNARD Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
CLAUDE BERNARD Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
CLAUDE BERNARD When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
CLAUDE SWANSON It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so...
CLAUDE MONET Art is I; science is we.
CLAUDE BERNARD The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment,...
CLAUDE BERNARD Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each f...
CLAUDE MCKAY The first time I went to America in the mid-1960s, I was telling (everyone) I was from Montreux, Swi...
CLAUDE NOBS The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never ...
CLAUDE CHABROL There is insufficient capacity there and there is a problem with conversion capacity.
CLAUDE MANDIL Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each f...
CLAUDE MCKAY Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and ...
ALBERT CLAUDE In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are...
CLAUDE NICOLLIER Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke
CLAUDE MCDONALD I suggest that a provision expressly state that the commission will not interfere in any way in the ...
CLAUDE JORDA It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning
CLAUDE BERNARD Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupid...
CLAUDE CHABROL Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and...
CLAUDE MCKAY In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him...
CLAUDE BERNARD Experimentation is an active science.
CLAUDE BERNARD A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
CLAUDE CHABROL The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.
CLAUDE NICOLLIER The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
CLAUDE BERNARD Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993...
CLAUDE NICOLLIER The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the...
CLAUDE NICOLLIER The score was a bit cruel, but that's football and we congratulate the Egypt team.
CLAUDE LEROY Every team that comes to Chelsea , they close the game,
CLAUDE MAKELELE Some people may have expected us to drop points at Liverpool or get beaten. We didn't do that, we wo...
CLAUDE MAKELELE The question is not whether we play well or play badly. It's to play to win. Nobody will remember th...
CLAUDE MAKELELE We have to win that last match, no matter how.
CLAUDE MAKELELE On Thursday I'm going to train with all the enthusiasm in the world together with my Madrid teammate...
CLAUDE MAKELELE It is more a case of us giving the goals away than a product of our opponents play, ... We need to o...
CLAUDE MAKELELE When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find th...
ALBERT CLAUDE The highway administration is looking at it. This will be closely monitored. We're probably going to...
CLAUDE BERGERON Seven said 'Yes,' three said 'No' and one was absent and hence two reports reflecting both views wen...
CLAUDE ALVARES The fungus is knocking out species...It impedes the ability of their skin to absorb oxygen and just ...
CLAUDE GASCON The fungus is knocking out species...It impedes the ability of their skin to absorb oxygen and just ...
CLAUDE GASCON We just ask him to play well and if he fits our puzzle, we'll keep him.
CLAUDE JULIEN The I-75 corridor gets a lot of traffic.
CLAUDE BERGERON Elections themselves are not the magic bullet,
CLAUDE CLEGG It's significant. The changes are not minimal.
CLAUDE GAUTHIER The U.S. was hit on its own territory, and furthermore, the impact was done by civilian aircraft, wh...
JEAN CLAUDE They're playing like an ordinary team, but I remember that was the case two seasons ago,
CLAUDE JULIEN Experimentation is an active science
CLAUDE BERNARD Most worries are reruns.
CLAUDE MCDONALD I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
CLAUDE CHABROL We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, inv...
CLAUDE BOLTON We know that there are survivors since we hear knocking against the sides, against the hull,
JEAN CLAUDE You were asked, and very, very rarely did you deny a donation to help pay for things at the school.
CLAUDE CRANSTON I hope I don't cry. I keep losing it. It was scary. It tore some of the roof off. I couldn't get gas...
CLAUDE FORET If we do not stay on track, we are dead meat.
CLAUDE BOLTON I just wondered how things were put together.
CLAUDE SHANNON We must change these outcomes and get the planet onto a sustainable energy path.
CLAUDE MANDIL If Lance Armstrong was a French rider and we were in possession of the same information, we would ha...
CLAUDE DROUSSENT What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual ...
CLAUDE CALAME In many cases, captive colonies will be our only short-term way of avoiding extinction.
CLAUDE GASCON The technology is truly efficient and economical. But the biggest thing is, our economic analysis sh...
CLAUDE CORKADEL Menopausal women who might have been candidates for estrogen plus progestin should now focus on well...
CLAUDE LENFANT It appears participation was the highest in this country's electoral history.
CLAUDE BOUCHER If any supply disruption occurs again we can make a speedy decision,
CLAUDE MANDIL This agreement allows us to extend the breadth and sophistication of our integrated solutions to our...
CLAUDE IMBLEAU For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; b...
CLAUDE MONET The agreement will help Central African countries cooperate across borders in protected areas manage...
CLAUDE MARTIN I'm a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie.
CLAUDE WILLIAMS We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ...
CLAUDE MARTIN The situation is critical. We are trying to deliver food and medicine to park staff who are courageo...
CLAUDE MARTIN The economic interests of the rich are being put before poor people and the environment.
CLAUDE MARTIN Keith Jarrett did the first festival when he was part of the Charles Lloyd quartet, ... Then he came...
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CLAUDE MANDIL by staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder...
CLAUDE SHANNON I would advise young artists . . . to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid o...
CLAUDE MONET My life has been nothing but a failure
CLAUDE MONET The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter being concerne...
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CLAUDE SHANNON Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,/ And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,/ Stealing my...
CLAUDE MCKAY Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is ...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
CLAUDE MCKAY There is inconsistency in the information about the toxic waste.
CLAUDE ALVARES the attacks looming on the horizon.
JEAN CLAUDE Although research has shown the value of aspirin for people who have had a heart attack or stroke, a...
CLAUDE LENFANT The Greeks play very well on the counter,
CLAUDE MAKELELE Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insin...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY The Commission fails completely in its Green Book to react to the rebirth of 'economic patriotism' i...
CLAUDE TURMES The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one...
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