"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by……" — Thomas Hobbes
"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."
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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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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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Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae…
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Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history…
— Joe Baca
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
— Francis Bacon
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On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because…
— Michael Badnarik
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
— Victor Borge
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they…
— William S. Burroughs
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I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family,…
— Herman Cain
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My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
— Alex Campbell
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
— George Carlin
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