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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Art

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 Quotes

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

English Philosopher

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 Quotes

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Competition English Philosopher

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 Quotes

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.

English Philosopher

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

English Philosopher

Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame - Thomas Hobbes Quotes

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame

Man

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