Quotes by
Thomas Hobbes |
1588-1679 , English philosopher
English philosopher who is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy His famous book Leviathan (1651) established the agenda for nearly all subsequent Western political philosophy. | 25 quotes | 1,995 visits |
Quotations
| • | The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. 4 |
| • | Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. 4 |
| • | For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. 4 |
| • | A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. 3 |
| • | Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. 3 |
| • | In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. 3 |
| • | For he that hath strength enough to protect all, wants not sufficiency to oppress all 3 |
| • | Understanding being nothing else, but conception caused by Speech. 3 |
| • | The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. 2 |
| • | All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “Facts”. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. 2 |
| • | It is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire. 2 |
| • | Liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion. 2 |
| • | Curiosity is the lust of the mind. |
| • | Hell is truth seen too late. |
| • | Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. |
| • | Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. (his last words) |
| • | Give an inch, he'll take an ell. |
| • | The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method. |
| • | For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquility of mind, while we live here; because Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Fear, no more than without Sense. |
| • | And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price. |
| • | Men look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow. |
| • | Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin. |
| • | The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions. |
Latin Quotes
| • | First live, then be a philosopher. Primum vivere deinde philosophari. 16 |
| • | War of all against all. Bellum omnium contra omnes. (a description to human existence in the state of nature) |
