William Godwin Quotes

William Godwin
William Godwin
English Writer
Born: Mar 3, 1756
Died: Apr 7, 1836
Great Life Love Man Men Nature
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him. William Godwin
Man Enemies Thought Become Assume Guard Those Individual Through Never He Animosity Him His Hears Surrounded May Regards Plain Social Meaning Prejudice Should Speaking Who Beings Lest Whom Ever
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. William Godwin
Passion Revolutions Tranquil Sober Produce Reason
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. William Godwin
Witness Imagination Apprehend Thousand Must Conceive Powers Exercise Which Room Actually Things
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. William Godwin
Best Power Own Think Our Unless We Cannot Perform Well Tasks Cannot Capacity
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. William Godwin
Love Love Is Every Rule Out Cases Reduced Understood Question Where Measured Thing
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. William Godwin
First Meditation Considerable Previous Implies Execution First Place Persevering Any Place Thing
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. William Godwin
Education Our Haste Educate Forget Ends Us Let Us Eagerness
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. William Godwin
Evil Sense Everything Some Term Understood Co-Operation
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. William Godwin
Future Thoughts Will Past Has-Been Taken Come Been Up Present Image Necessarily
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. William Godwin
Happiness Love Good Justice Humanity Cause Will General Overflow Advocate Mankind Should Universal
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. William Godwin
Love Diligent Scholar He Himself Loves Reason Applaud Desires
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? William Godwin
Love Parent More Clear Sound His Than Child Explanation
One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. William Godwin
Man Gift Living Other Earth Consists Distinguished Globe Which Inhabiting Reason Beings
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. William Godwin
Man Rights Men Active Other Possess Kinds Cases Supposed Forbearance Real Passive List Certain Right Assistance Two
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