William Godwin Quotes
Top 52 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Godwin
William Godwin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble.
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book,
Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius ... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.