Tag: Thomas Hobbes
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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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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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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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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