Skip to content

What motives have influenced the writers who have rejected all religious systems? Is it the conviction that the ideas which they oppose are all injurious to society? Have they not rather included in the same proscription religion and the abuse of it?

— Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

Another quote →

Topics

Society

More quotes by Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Heat can evidently be a cause of motion only by virtue of the changes of volume or of form which it produces in bodies.

Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)

The driving power of heat is independent of the agents used to realize it; its value is uniquely fixed by the temperatures of the bodies between which the transfer of caloric is made.

Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat and on Machines Fitted to Develop Power (1824)

God cannot punish man for not believing when he could so easily have enlightened and convinced him.

Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

A religion suited to the soul and preached by men worthy of respect would exercise the most salutary influence upon society and customs.

Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

The truly wise man is he who loves virtue for its own sake.

Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

All Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot quotes →

You may also like

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare As You Like It (1599)

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Daniel Webster

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.