50 ordspråk av Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes föddes den 5 april 1588 och dog den 4 december 1679 - engelsk filosof.
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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

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

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

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.

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

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.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

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.

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.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

The world is governed by opinion.

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