Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests. - William Godwin 1 Share Now -
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. - William Godwin 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible. - William Godwin 5 Share Now -
Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes. - William Godwin 7 Share Now -
Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration. - William Godwin 8 Share Now -
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. - William Godwin 9 Share Now -
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. - William Godwin 10 Share Now -
