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Quotes By author - Starting with W - William Godwin
There are 52 quotes for the author William Godwin
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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

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.

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

A soldier is a man whose business it is to kill those who never offended him, and who are the innocent martyrs of other men's iniquities. Whatever may become of the abstract question of the justifiableness of war, it seems impossible that the soldier should not be a depraved and unnatural thing.

Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.

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.

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