"Not believing in force is the same as……" — Thomas Hobbes
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
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Thomas Hobbes
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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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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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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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More Believing Quotes
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
— Aristotle
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
— Kate Adie
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A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
— Theodor Adorno
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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as…
— Theodor Adorno
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
— Bjork
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years,…
— Jo Brand
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Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough,…
— Julie Burchill
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To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as…
— Julie Burchill
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We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and…
— Samuel Butler
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that…
— Albert Camus
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