Men Quote by Thomas Hobbes Download Open image “Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.” — Thomas Hobbes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Pleasure Profit Truth Welcome
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. — Herbert Agar Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices...… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Man rarely produces truth unless he finds a way to profit from it” — Angelos Michalopoulos Copy Share Image
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure;… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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