Best Thomas Hobbes Sayings
- No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. Becomes
- That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary,… All
- The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. Apparent
- It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law Authority
- Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion Casual
- The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon… Dawn
- The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without… Absurdities
- The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors. Been
- The law is the public conscience. Conscience
- A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the… Aristocracy
- The reputation of power IS power. Inspirational
- To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad. Geometrician
- There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together. All
- Whatsoever accidents Or qualities our sense make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The… Accidents
- From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether… Bird
- Covenants without swords are but words. Covenant
- As soon as a thought darts, I write it down. Darts
- That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools. All
- The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their… All
- Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. Funny
- The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given… All
- True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. Attributes
- Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Curiosity
- The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. Condition
- All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. All
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