50 ordspråk av William Godwin
William Godwin
 Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. |
| Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. |
| The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. |
| The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. |
| The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. |
| The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. |
| The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. |
| The most desirable mode of education. . . . is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality. |
| The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. |
| The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself |
| The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. |
| There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. |
| There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape. |
| 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. |
| They held it their duty to live but for their country. |
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