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Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
- There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
- Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
- The world is governed by opinion.
- Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
- Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut…
- Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
- Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
- For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.
- Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
- To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
- Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
- Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.
- For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
- It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
- Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.
- If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.
- The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
- It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law
- The law is the public conscience.
- The reputation of power IS power.
- There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
- Covenants without swords are but words.
- As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.
- Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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