"The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is……" — Thomas Hobbes
"The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?"
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112 Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes has 112 quotes on this site.
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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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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have…
— Theodore Bikel
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some…
— David Bowie
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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
— Ray Bradbury
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any…
— Eli Broad
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
— Andre Breton
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One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both…
— Jeff Bridges
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Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
— Eli Broad
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
— Les Brown
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