"The end of knowledge is power ... the……" — Thomas Hobbes
"The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done."
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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