Thomas Hobbes Quotes

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

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• Science is knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

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• For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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• The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

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• A Free Man is he, that in those things, which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

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• They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government.

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• The value, or worth of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

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• In Geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind) men begin at settling the significations of their words; which…they call Definitions.

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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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• He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

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• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “Facts”. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

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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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• I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

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• Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

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

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• The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

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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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• 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 flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

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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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Thomas Hobbes (42)

Birth:	5th April, 1588
Death:	4th December, 1679
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Founder, Philosopher

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