Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

British philosopher

Lived from: 1588 - 1679

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 5 april 1588 Died: 4 december 1679

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  • The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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  • The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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  • The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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  • The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.
    Leviathan (1651) XV
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  • There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
    Leviathan ch. 31
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  • There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity 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.
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  • True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
    Leviathan (1651)
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  • Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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  • War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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  • Words are the money of fools.
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  • Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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  • For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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