Thomas Hobbes quotes
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“Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.”
-- Thomas HobbesSource : Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."
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“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
-- Thomas HobbesSource : "Very Happy to Be Here!". Book by Edward Pavlik, p.137, December 1, 2006.
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“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law”
-- Thomas HobbesSource : Thomas Hobbes, Alan Cromartie, Quentin Skinner (2005). “Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right”, p.10, Oxford University Press
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“Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.”
-- Thomas HobbesSource : Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.256, Simon and Schuster
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“If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.”
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“Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.”
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“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.”
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“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.”
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“The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.”
-- Thomas HobbesSource : Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.98, Broadview Press
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“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.”
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“The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.”
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“There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.”
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“The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
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“Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.”
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“The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.”
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“I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”
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“Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.”
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“A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.”
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“Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.”
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“Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.”
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“The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.”
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“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
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“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.”
-- Thomas HobbesSource : Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
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“The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.”
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“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”
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“A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.”
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“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”
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“It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.”
-- Thomas Hobbes
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