Claude Adrien Helvetius Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: January 26, 1715 - December 26, 1771

Topics

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If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

Jessica Valenti

TimePeoplePowerfulDownFeminism

I buy Coppertone Water Babies in abundance at the airport, SPF 60 or 70. I like being pale; I like looking like a creature from the dead world. I like looking like a ghost.

Jennifer Stone

WaterWorldLookingAirportDead

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

Mavis Staples

PositivePurposeYouLiftSpirit

I love sharing my life with people.

Anjelah Johnson

LifeLovePeopleMy LifeSharing

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.

Jeff Tweedy

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All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

Tracey Emin

LifeMistakesMy LifeDrunkSober

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

Toni Collette

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Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

Robert D. Kaplan

WorldFrustrationYouTestAirOut

If I don't get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If I'm doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before.

Roger Craig Smith

WorkSleepBrainNightStartVoice

I'll be the first to admit it - after the first episode, I wasn't sold on Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor of 'Doctor Who,' with the bewildered Clara following behind like a lost puppy, haphazardly flinging aggression around like cream pies in a 'Three Stooges' marathon.

Rob Manuel

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Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Roy L. Smith

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There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.

Michelle Forbes

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