Quotes of Thomas Hobbes - somelinesforyou

“ Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Leisure is the mother of philosophy. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Words are the money of fools. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility 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 Hobbes

“ For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Hell is truth seen too late. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Curiosity is the lust of the mind. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ 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 Hobbes

“ They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ For 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, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance… ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Whosoever persuadeth by reasoning from principles written, maketh him to whom he speaketh judge, both of the meaning of those principles and also of the force of his inferences upon them. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. ”

- Thomas Hobbes
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