38 Quotations by Thomas Hobbes
- 21. Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
- 22. Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more ...
- 23. Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
- 24. That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he s ...
- 25. The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as ...
- 26. The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
- 27. The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p ...
- 28. The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p ...
- 29. The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition ...
- 30. The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
- 31. The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but t ...
- 32. The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, w ...
- 33. There can be no greater argument to a man of his own power than to find himself able not only to acc ...
- 34. There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
- 35. Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
- 36. War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will ...
- 37. Words are the money of fools.
- 38. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
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