English - Philosopher | April 5, 1588 - December 4, 1679
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
Thomas Hobbes
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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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.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
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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.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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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.
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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.
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