William Godwin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.”

“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.”

“But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.”

“Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.”

“Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.”

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

“To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.”

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

“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.”