48 ordspråk av Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes föddes den April 5th 1588 och dog den 4 December 1679 - English philosopher
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 A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. |
| A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. |
| All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. |
| Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. |
| As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body. |
| As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body. |
| Curiosity is the lust of the mind. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. |
| He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. |
| I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark. |
| I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. |
| In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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