Thomas Hobbes
Quotations
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“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.” -Thomas Hobbes
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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.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.” -Thomas Hobbes
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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.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.” -Thomas Hobbes
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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.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.” -Thomas Hobbes
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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. – Thomas Hobbes
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