“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘Facts’. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.”
― Thomas Hobbes
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"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminence in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own former self."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man, but man-kind."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"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 mind.’’
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
― Thomas Hobbes
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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. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Government is necessary, not because man is bad but because man is by nature more individualistic than social."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s sudden stop at the end.’’
― Thomas Hobbes
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“The world is governed by opinion.”
― Thomas Hobbes |
"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."
― Thomas Hobbes
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“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.”
― Thomas Hobbes |
"All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.’’
― Thomas Hobbes
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"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power."
― Thomas Hobbes |
"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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