Axioms Quote by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Download Open image “Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."” — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Axioms Conclusion Despotism Fear History Leviathan Logic Method
“We will enter into a new phase in which the Leviathan, so to speak, will become the body formed to make possible the incarnation… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Since I have undertaken to manhandle this Leviathan, it behoves me to approve myself omnisciently exhaustive in the enterprise; not overlooking the minutest seminal… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in latine CIVITAS) which is but an Artificiall Man; though of… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
“A universe is, indeed, to be pitied whose dominating inhabitants are so unconscious and so ethically embryonic that they make life a commodity, mercy… — J. Howard Moore Copy Share Image
“We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization...In this, our main obligation is to establish arbitrary enclaves of order and system...It is… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“Kind prince there is nothing in the realm of ideas that is absolute, therefore all efforts to form ideologies are ultimately futile.” — Lao Tse Copy Share Image
“Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge, nor proclaims… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on… — Lovecraft H.P Copy Share Image
“There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
... the death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events.… — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God. — Charles de Foucauld Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently.… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image