Tag: Thomas Hobbes
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No man’s error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes
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The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes
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The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas Hobbes
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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Thomas Hobbes
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The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes