Author of quotes: Claude Adrien Helvetius. Page 3

The minds of those who want to know and listen to different opinions, much more capable of the knowledge of the truth.

How many virtues are only the virtues of theatre and to support themselves, need to prying eyes and public admiration.

When the mind considers the subject only in General terms, they see only the displacement of the inconceivable difficulties and uncertainties. But this is only caused by laziness are the ghosts that haunt the gloom. Put rays reflections, and all that was unclear will become clear.

Stolen kiss is better conquered Kingdom.

Humanity in man is the result of memories of the suffering that he knows either by experience or by the experience of others.

If anyone is looking for a society of educated people, if he commonly lives with people, his superior mind, he becomes enlightened.

Deep ideas similar to those of pure water, transparency is obscured by their depth.

Here those who worship Serapis are Christians and those who call themselves bishops of Christ are devoted to Serapis; there is no head of the Jewish synagogues, Samaritan or Christian presbyter, who was not an astrologer, a haruspex, a charlatan; even the Patriarch himself, when arriving in Egypt, dragged by some to worship Serapis, by others Christ. But their God is money. He is honored and Christians and Jews and all the tribes of

Ignorance leads to stupidity.

Anyone studying the history of national calamities can make sure that most of the misery on earth brings ignorance.

Any religious dogma is the germ of crimes and strife between people.

What can we learn from the history of religions? They're everywhere fanned the flames of intolerance, plain littered with corpses, watered the earth with blood, burned cities, devastated the country; but they never made people better.

Only in the rapture of love feel the happiness of existence and, pressing lips to lips, exchanging souls.

Most authors behave in their writings as secular people for conversation: engaged only in order to be liked. They care little about how to achieve this - a lie or truth.