Quotes: Thomas Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes
+1It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
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Thomas Hobbes
0A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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Thomas Hobbes
0Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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Thomas Hobbes
0Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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Thomas Hobbes
0Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Thomas Hobbes
0Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.
Source: Leviathan (1651) XIII -
Thomas Hobbes
0He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
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Thomas Hobbes
0I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Thomas Hobbes
0In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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Thomas Hobbes
0It is true that they that have sovereign power may commit iniquity, but not injustice or injury in the proper signification.
Source: Leviathan (1651) XVIII -
Thomas Hobbes
0Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Thomas Hobbes
0Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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Thomas Hobbes
0No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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Thomas Hobbes
0Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Thomas Hobbes
0Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Herbert Spencer
Francis H. Bradley
Francis Herbert Hedge
