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Thomas Hobbes Quotes


An English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.

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Give an inch he'll take an ell.

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Curiosity is a lust of the mind.

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Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

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Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

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Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

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If I had read as much as other men I should have known no more than they.

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Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope; the same without such opinion despair.

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Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.