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11 Quotes for 'Thomas Hobbes' in the Database.
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Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.
Topic: Absurdity
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
Topic: Absurdity
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. •Johann Kaspar Lavater It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. •Fred Allen We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Topic: Dependence
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No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Topic: Error
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Give an inch, he'll take an ell.
Topic: Gifts
Source: Liberty and Necessity (no. 111)
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Topic: Last Words
Source: his reported last words, hence, "Hobbes' voyage" used by Vanbrugh in "The Provoked Wife"
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Topic: Leisure
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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.
Topic: Nature
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Topic: Politics / Government
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against
them.
Topic: Reason
Source: Works (III, p. 91), (ed. 1839)
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The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his
price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of
his power.
Topic: Work
Source: Leviathan (ch. X)
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