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Thomas Hobbes Quotations

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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes - "The Leviathan"
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes - quoted from "Oxygen3
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679
Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.
English political philosopher
1588 - 1679

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