Claude Adrien Helvétius Quote

The passions are the celestial fire that vivifies the moral world. It is to them that the arts and sciences owe their discoveries, and man the elevation of his position.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


The passions are the celestial fire that vivifies the moral world. It is to them that the arts and sciences owe their discoveries, and man the...

The passions are the celestial fire that vivifies the moral world. It is to them that the arts and sciences owe their discoveries, and man the...

The passions are the celestial fire that vivifies the moral world. It is to them that the arts and sciences owe their discoveries, and man the...

The passions are the celestial fire that vivifies the moral world. It is to them that the arts and sciences owe their discoveries, and man the...