36 quotes
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
"If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test."
on Philosophy
"I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."
"It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men."
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
on Life
"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"
"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour."
on Love
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
"The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized."
on Society
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
"nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose"
"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115"
on Knowledge
"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."
on Relationships
"Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity."
on Nature
"Virtue can only flourish among equals."
on Equality
"A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study."
on Wisdom
"The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief."
"The beginning is always today."
on Inspirational
"the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."
on Creativity
