Opinion Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

11 Opinion quotes by Thomas Hobbes

If you’re curious about how Hobbes framed personal judgment, these eleven snippets give a quick taste of his perspective. They’re enough to spark reflection without overwhelming you.

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How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to…

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

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

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Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural…

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From the same it proceedeth,that men gives different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions:…

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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…

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The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers,…

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Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old…

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Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in…

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When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other…

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“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,…

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Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;…

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Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

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A 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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He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it…

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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their…

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Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it…

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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to…

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“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.”

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

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Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered…

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