Quotes about Thomas Hobbes

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for...

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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

#Thomas Hobbes

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

#Thomas Hobbes

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things...

#Thomas Hobbes

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

#Thomas Hobbes

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency...

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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

#Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

#Thomas Hobbes

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of...

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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome;...

#Thomas Hobbes