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Thomas Hobbes quotes

English Philosopher April 5, 1588 – December 4, 1679

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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
Thomas Hobbes quote: "The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy,..."
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark"
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "A great leap in the dark"
A great leap in the dark Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called..."
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. Thomas Hobbes
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light. Thomas Hobbes
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes
What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body? Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist..."
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "Words are the money of fools."
Words are the money of fools. Thomas Hobbes
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
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes quote: "It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. Thomas Hobbes
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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