"Life in the state of nature is solitary,……" — Thomas Hobbes
"Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes has 112 quotes on this site.
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Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
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All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
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There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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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…
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The world is governed by opinion.
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It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do,…
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
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Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae…
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More Brutish Quotes
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot…
— Charlie Chaplin
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
— Alexander Berkman
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you…
— Alexander Berkman
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Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed…
— Matt Groening
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish.…
— Bill Gates
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual…
— Isaac Watts
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
— Stella Gibbons
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons…
— John T. Flynn
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Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
— Edward Dahlberg
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.
— Jacob M. Appel
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a…
— Federica Montseny
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