Claude Adrien Helvetius Quotes on Virtue
Claude Adrien Helvetius was a French Enlightenment philosopher, tax-farmer, and patron of the philosophes. This page collects quotes attributed to Claude Adrien Helvetius on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Claude Adrien Helvetius:
“Education makes us what we are.”
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Attributed to Claude Adrien Helvetius:
“Self-interest is the spring of every action.”
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“No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.”
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“Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This fear has often the effect of courage: but it cannot prevail against the fierce and obstinate valor of people animated by fanaticism, or warm love of their country.”
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