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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
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Philosopher
April 5
, 1588 -
December 4
, 1679
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
Legal
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Law
,
Authority
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
Nature
,
Will
,
Use
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas Hobbes
Everyone
,
Against
,
Condition
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes
Curiosity
,
Mind
,
Lust
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Thomas Hobbes
War
,
Every Man
,
Against
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
Last
,
Which
,
Subjects
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
Past
,
Mind
,
Endures
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes
Judgment
,
Same
,
His
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes
Other
,
Willing
,
Allow
Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
Money
,
Words
,
Fools
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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.
Thomas Hobbes
Nature
,
May
,
Learned
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
Envy
,
Mutual
,
Proceeds
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Thomas Hobbes
Nature
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Measure
,
State
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
I Am
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Last
,
Take
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes
Roman Empire
,
Other
,
Grave
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
Thomas Hobbes
Last
,
Which
,
Inhabitants
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes
Minds
,
Horror
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Commonly
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
War
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Fraud
,
Virtues
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
Mind
,
Here
,
Desire
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
Mother
,
Philosophy
,
Leisure
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Thomas Hobbes
Thoughts
,
Shame
,
Over
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes
Science
,
Fact
,
Another
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Thomas Hobbes
Living
,
Which
,
Absurdity
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
Restless
,
Inclination
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes
Law
,
Nor
,
His
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
Thomas Hobbes
Will
,
Tract
,
Sufficiently
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