"Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason……" — Thomas Hobbes

"Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them."

— Thomas Hobbes

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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes has 112 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
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.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be…
The world is governed by opinion.
It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do,…
Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…

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