“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.”

About Claude-Adrien Helvétius

Philosopher • French

Claude-Adrien Helvétius was an influential French philosopher, Freemason, and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. His major work, "De l'esprit" (On Mind), argued that all human faculties are attributes of...