Claude Adrien Helvetius Quotes

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You must have honor and honesty in your dealings with one another. But I think the deeper thing that we need to do is to become so fully human that we don't grasp at life; we give life away. We give love away. We give being away. That is the ultimate work of religion.

To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves - these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one 'from love.' Love is to rule.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Be just before you are generous.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.